The Golden Vision

Boys In Kichute

October 2010 •Portuguese

A 12 year old boy dreams of becoming a goalkeeper for the national Brazilian soccer team, but first he has to overcome his own fears to convince his team boys club and his father who is against competition.

Switching Goals

December 1999 •English

Twin sisters Emma and Sam come up with a scheme to switch places so each can play in the soccer team they prefer.

Who Wants to Be Your Friend When Your Star Fades

May 2023 •Swedish

Håkan Hellström plays a football trainer to a team consisting of lookalikes of well-known football players such as Zlatan, Messi and David Beckham

The Heiress

December 2009 •Greek

Vera is a beautiful former flight attendant and wife of Stelios, a president of the small-medium football team of the Big Division, "Black Panthers". She lives a quiet life, raising her two children. Everything goes smoothly, until an extramarital adventure of Stelios has a fatal end.

Soccer Poker

March 1989 •Polish

Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international referee. He sees the prevailing arrangements, manipulations, and bribery around him. Now desperate, he decides to stage an extraordinary culmination of his career: he wants to create a so-called "miracle Sunday" by "printing" the final round of games - taking substantial bribes from the interested clubs and manipulating the matches so that the results align in the order he set up.

Streets of Rio

January 2008 •Portuguese

Rio de Janeiro. Confronted with the violence that exists in the favela where he lives, Tiago sees the only way out to become a soccer player and, in this way, help his family to have a better life. Although he is the best player in his neighborhood and the chances of being discovered by a scout are good, he faces a number of problems. One of them is Tubarão, the leader of the most powerful gang in the favela, who wants Tiago to work for him as a drug dealer. To complicate matters even more, Tiago falls in love with Juliana, Tubarão's sister.

Küss mich, Genosse!

January 2007 •German

Jenny is hit in the head by a soccer ball. When she comes to, the clock has turned back exactly 32 years! It is June 21, 1974, the year of the football World Cup, one day before the football match between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR. Jenny experiences two turbulent days at the side of her future parents - in both parts of Germany.

Bloomfield

December 1970 •English

An aging soccer player has a part-time girlfriend, a young fan, and doubts about throwing a game.

The Penalty King

November 2006 •English

Lee, a soccer player who descends into depression when he goes blind, is encouraged to take up the game again by a maverick American and the inspiration of Leeds Utd legend, Billy Bremner.

Nefta Football Club

October 2018 •Arabic

In the south of Tunisia, two football fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border of Algeria. Strangely, the animal wears headphones over its ears.

Willi Manages the Whole Thing

February 1972 •German

She's the Man

March 2006 •English

Viola Hastings is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her handsome roommate, Duke, who loves beautiful Olivia, who has fallen for Sebastian! As if that were not enough, Viola's twin returns from London ahead of schedule but has no idea that his sister has already replaced him on campus.

One Day in Europe

April 2005 •English

One day in Europe shows stories set in four European countries. All of them involve thievery in some way or the other. The protagonists are strangers in the respective country. For none of them their stay turns out as planned.

Mike Bassett: England Manager

September 2001 •English

After England's football (soccer) manager has a heart attack, Mike Bassett is hired as the new manager and promptly announces the team will win the World Cup.

Offside

December 2000 •Turkish

Thirtysomething Suat still lives with his parents and works at his father's store when not practicing as goalie for the local football team, Esnaf Spor. The neighborhood's greatest wish is for Esnaf Spor to win the amateur league championship.

Shaolin Girl

April 2008 •Japanese

A Shaolin-trainer young woman returns to Japan to resuscitate her grandfather's defunct martial arts school.

Little Gods

May 2013 •Italian

A sniper is hiding in a bush. He’s waiting to do what he has to do. A man made a choice and he tries to convince a woman to accept it. Some boys organize a football match. A child plays with a water gun. It’s a late summer afternoon. For someone, it will be the last summer.

Šeki's Rolling, Watch Out!

March 1962 •

A group of young men suggest to the local tinsmith to make a movie, but he agrees only if its director would be his cousin Šeki, a Red Star FC soccer legend. Šeki, though, thinks that the movie-making is the same thing as a soccer match, which causes many argues amongst the members of the film crew.

I Am Zlatan

November 2021 •Swedish

Coming-of-age story depicting Zlatan Ibrahimovic's upbringing in a rough Swedish suburb. Born to Balkan immigrants, football was Zlatan's release in a tough environment where his remarkable talent and self-reliance catapulted him against all odds to the top of international football playing for clubs like Ajax Amsterdam, Juventus, Inter, Milan, Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United.

The Greatest Footie Ads Ever

June 2012 •English

Paddy McGuinness celebrates the humour, imagination and blockbuster entertainment that footie ads have brought viewers over the last 30 years.