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Not Just Football

(Also available in 52 mins) To break the indifference on Darfur humanitarian crisis, an enterprising activist must create an all-refugee national football team and compete in the World Cup. In 2005, Gabriel Stauring, a young and enterprising activist from California, decides to travel to Africa – with a camera in hand – to do what he can to help the thousands of refugees from Darfur escaping from a cruel and dramatic civil war in Sudan. Eight years later, Gabriel’s enthusiasm is challenged with disappointment: he has since created an NGO and is still risking his life and facing outstanding obstacles, but the international community is no longer interested in his mission. What can he do, to re-capture the world’s attention? In 2012, he creates “Darfur United”, a soccer team made of young Darfuri refugees living in the camps of Chad. Through exclusive access to 500 hours of video footage taken directly by Gabriel Stauring and other characters in the flim, Not Just Football follows the journey of Darfur United players, from the dust of the refugee camps to the lights of a world football tournament, and along the complex path of going from being refugees to becoming citizens. Not Just Football.

Official Selections 2020: FICTS, MyART Festival, Festival Mundial de Cine Fútbolero, 11MM Film Festival, Arcosanti Film Festival, SHOOT Festival, Helios Film Festival. Official Selections 2019: Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival, Tercer Tiempo. Official Selections 2018: DocsMX, Global Migration Film Festival.


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Documentaries Sports English 2018 01:10:00 HD English, Italian, Spanish(Castilian) Via DICE

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