Champions
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Film Info
Film Year: 2016
Film Duration: 8 min
Country: Germany
Language: Kurdish
Director
Anastasija Bräuniger
Film Category
Synopsis
On the day of the football European Championship finals 2016, a group of Kurdish children from a refugee camp in Northern Iraq, tries to contact the FIFA. The children call the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland to register their team for the football World Championship in 2018. “Champions” was filmed 2016 in a refugee camp between Erbil and Mosul, where Kurdish and Syrian refugees from Kobane are accommodated.