FOOTBALL UNDER COVER
DE/IR (2008), 86min, 35mm (shot on HDV)

Direction: Ayat Najafi, David Assmann
Idea: Marlene Assmann, Ayat Najafi
Camera: Anne Misselwitz, Niclas Reed Middleton
Editor: Sylke Rohrlach
Sound: Hanna Weissgerber, Antje Volkmann
Composer: Nico Schabel

Production: Flying Moon Filmproduktion Helge Albers, Patrick Merkele, Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
Distribution: Flying Moon Filmverleih GbR

Synopsis:
Teheran in April 2006. Iran’s national women’s team and a local Berlin women’s football team play their first official friendly match. The atmosphere at the stadium is super-charged with girl power. Although their only desire was to play football together, it has taken the young women of both teams a whole year to get where they are today. Theirs has been a battle against testosterone, arbitrariness and oppression.

Cinema Release: 24. April 2008
DVD-Release: 21. November 2008D (2008), 86min, 35mm (original HDV)