The Workers Cup

Labour: Our Life
Adam Sobel
United Kingdom
2017
89min
English, Nepali, Malayalam, Twi, Ga, Hindi, Arabic

The Workers Cup is a close look inside Qatar’s labor camps, where the future World Cup locations are being built by a million-plus migrant workers. The film follows a team of laborers living a real-life version of fantasy football. By day they sweat on the construction sites, by night they compete in a "workers welfare’" football tournament, playing in the same stadiums that will one day host the world’s greatest players. The director zooms-in on a team with workers from Nepal, India, Ghana, and Kenya whose only common ground is their love for football. Each match offers a momentary escape from homesickness and isolation. Feeling like pawns in the World Cup’s marketing game, they can’t help but hope that their success in sports will bring a change to their lives.

Projections: 
11.08. Thursday 15:00
Művész
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Q&A
11.10. Saturday 14:45
Művész
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Q&A
Producer: 
Ramzy Haddad
Rosie Garthwaite
Editor: 
Lauren Wellbrock
Anne Jünemann
Adam Sobel
Camera: 
Nazim Aggoune
Joe Saade
Music: 
Nathan Halpern
Distribution info: 
AUTLOOK Filmsales, Salma Abdalla, Spittelberggasse 3/14, 1070 Vienna, Austria, Telephone: +43-720346934, welcome@autlookfilms.com, www.autlookfilms.com
Festivals: 
Sundance 2017 Official Selection
CPH:DOX 2017