Last Man he has been reporting on sport in a different way for more than ten years, on the web and on paper. Thanks to CineAgenzianow, moves from the written word to image and sound, presenting it in cinemas In the fielda review of three documentaries on football and the world that revolves around it, among the best of the last season of international festivals, all premiering in Italy.
In the field aims to become an annual event and point of reference for sports documentaries. It was born from the meeting between CineAgenzia – known for Mondovisioni, the traveling documentary review of the weekly magazine International which returns to the Sala Estense in May – and Ultimo Uomo – one of the most popular sports magazines in Italy.
Thanks to Arci Ferrarain collaboration with UISP Ferrara And The Spallinothe first edition of the exhibition In the field also arrives in the Sala Estense with guests and special moments.
All films will be screened in their original language with Italian subtitles.
The first documentary to light up the screen of the Sala Estense will be Copa 71Monday May 13th at 9.15pm. The film will be presented by Valentina Forlin of the editorial team of Ultimo Uomo, who will dialogue with Alessandro Orlandin (director of Lo Spallino). The evening will also be enriched by the collaboration withSpal Women’s Academythanks to the presence of the captain Gaia Loberti which will tell the story of the Ferrara women’s football movement.
Copa 71, a film by James Erskine and Rachel Ramsay, takes us to August 1971: the national teams of England, Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark and Italy meet in the sunny Azteca stadium in Mexico City. The scale of the tournament is monumental: sumptuous sponsors, extensive television coverage, merchandising on every street corner and crowds of over 100,000 wild fans who, match after match, transform the legendary stadium into hell. The media is adoring and the atmosphere evokes the greatest moments in the history of international football. But this tournament is different from all the previous ones: on the field they are all women, and you have probably never heard of them. It’s the incredible story of Copa 71, the first unofficial women’s World Cup. Disavowed by FIFA and all national football federations, the tournament was completely erased from history. Until today.
The documentaries will continue on Wednesday May 15th with The Home Game, by Smari Gunn and Logi Sigursveinsson. Twenty-five years ago, in a small fishing village in Iceland, a man built a football pitch by himself at the foot of a volcano, dreaming of founding a team to play a national cup match at home. The draw decided they would play away instead, they lost 10-0, and no one ever set foot on that pitch again. Twenty-five years later, Kari Vidarsson resurrects her father’s dream: to play at least one cup match at home, and lose by less than ten goals. Kari adopts her father’s philosophy and enlists anyone who wants to play, including a fisherman and his son, a reluctant Protestant parish priest, and a mother of three. But the very inclusion of a woman puts the historic match at risk, because mixed teams are not accepted by the Icelandic federation.
The screening will be presented by Alessandro Orlandin.
The film will close the show Allihopa: The Dalkurd Story by director Kordo Doski, Thursday May 23. Also in this case the director of Lo Spallino, Alessandro Orlandin, will present the documentary.
Allihopa, “all together” in Swedish, is the exceptional story of how the Dalkurd football team, born as a social project in a provincial Swedish working-class town, became the de facto national team of Kurdistan. Founded by Kurdish refugees to help young people settle into their new homeland, Dalkurd has become a symbol of hope and unity for millions of Kurds around the world. The enthralling chronicle follows the Kurdish-Swedish team in their quest to enter the history of European football, with an unprecedented rise through amateur and professional football. We meet Dalkurd in the second series, as they struggle to reach the elite division, the Allsvenskan, for the first time, faster than ever before. Through heart-to-heart interviews, dressing room footage and footage that immerses you in the atmosphere of the matches, Allihopa follows the journey of these exceptional protagonists on and off the pitch. The players are not only fighting for a place at the top of the sport, but also for the independence of their people: the Kurds remain the largest ethnic group in the world without a state.
The goal of In the field for the next few years is to present more documentaries and talk about more sports. But it also becomes an opportunity to bring Ultimo Uomo together with his loyal community, enriching the sports story and strengthening the bond with the people who read his articles every day.
All events will begin at 9.15pm, the doors of the Sala Estense will open to the public at 8.30pm.
