Australian Premiere

A humane and eloquently voiced plea for Iraq’s marginal citizens, and a timely reminder, as the World Cup rages, of the place the game holds in hearts throughout the world.

In a half-destroyed Iraqi football stadium, about 300 refugee families are living in a hastily assembled shanty town. The elder son of one of the families is Asu, an idealistic young man who arranges a football match between the Kurdish, Arab, Turkmen and Assyrian boys of the camp, in the hope of cheering up his younger brother and impressing his beautiful neighbour, Hilin. But when the big day rolls around, the lives of all involved are thrown into chaos when unforeseen tragedy strikes.

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