Title of film : Kick Off
Director Name : Shawkat Amin Korki
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Producer : Shawkat Amin Korki
Editor : Mastaneh Mohajer
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Synopsis : Three hundred families have taken refuge in improvised shelters in a derelict football stadium in Kirkuk. They returned to their country after the fall of Saddam Hussein only to find that the war destroyed their dwellings. The local authorities want to clear the area. Enterprising Asu wants nothing more than to please his depressed brother, who lost a leg to a landmine, and perhaps get a little closer to his attractive neighbor Hilin. To this end, he decides to organize a football tournament where the members of various nations will compete: Kurds, Arabs, Turks, and Assyrians. He even earns the support of a television station. The wind blows across the playing field, a horse canters, a helicopter circles above the stadium, and bombs can sometimes be heard close by.… Can the athletic spirit and the will to forge friendships overcome the sorrow and consequences of war? A stadium in Kirkuk full of refugees existed.
Director Bio : Born in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1973, Shawkat Amin Korki and his family fled from military oppression in 1975, living in exile in Iran for 25 years. Korki returned home and wrote, directed, and produced his first feature film in Iraqi Kurdistan, Crossing The Dust (2006). The film won many international prizes and was nominated for the inaugural APSA for Achievement in Directing. His third feature, Memories on Stone (2014), has won fourteen awards internationally to date including in 2014 Best Film from the Arab World at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, the coveted APSA UNESCO Award, and was Iraq’s official Academy Awards submission. Korki lives and works in Erbil, Iraqi, Kurdistan.
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