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Kick Off
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Die Festivaljury Pusan unter dem Franzosen Jean-Jacques Beineix notierte: «The jury, unanimously, chose to reward KICK OFF for its realistic, unexpected and poetic, almost surrealistic, vision to depict the precarious and hard life of a Kurdish Iraqi community who takes refuge in a football stadium. If the observation is dark and desperate, Shawkat Amin KORKI also reveals to us the great desire of his people to live, their ingenuity and struggling spirit. This simple movie and yet, full of imagination and strength, the director depicts the daily life of this struggling community which mobilizes for the preparation of an intercommunity football game. KICK OFF consecrates the emergence of a director whose talent is unanimously greeted by the jury.» Und die FIPRESCI-Jury meinte: «The jury decided that the FIPRESCI award for the best film goes to Kick Off by Shawkat Amin KORKI (Iraq), for its poetic and creative treatment of tough life in multiethnic surroundings of nowadays’ Iraq, given with a personal and human touch.

 

Ein mitfühlendes Drama, das authentischer als jede Doku vom Schicksal von Flüchtlingen verschiedener Ethnien im heutigen Irak erzählt, ist dem Kurden Shawkat Amin Korki gelungen. Er drehte in einem echten Flüchtlingslager mit Laien. Fußball dient als Symbol der Sehnsucht nach Normalität, einem würdigen Leben.
(Blickpunkt Film)