Travelling cinema brings soccer to life

The project began yesterday, 6 April 2010 in Worcester and after a national tour will return to Cape Town on 2 June. The Labia Cinema will then host a Soccer Cinema Festival from 5-10 June. These films are new to South African audiences and comprise a history and world-view of football.

Road films

• The African Dream: The Black Star
  
• FC Barcelona Confidential
  
• Black Star (Essien)
  
• Drogba Fever
  
• The Game of their Lives
  
• More than just a Game
  
• Offside
  
• The Other Final
  
• Zuma the Puma

Festival films

In addition to the road films the festival will add the following titles:

• The Death Match (in association with Holocaust Centre)
  
• Gods of Brazil
  
• History of Ivory
  
• Kicking It
  
• Johan Cruijff
  
• Panenka against the rest of the world

Its aim is to better inform audiences about the sport and stir support and excitement in the build-up to the celebration. It will allow people to see, hear and learn more about some of the greatest players and teams in the world - including Brazil's Pelé and Garrincha, the great Johan Cruijff, Maradona, Ivorian player Didier Drogba, Ghana's Essien, Cameroon's Eto and South Africa's Sibusiso Zuma.

It will bringing the magic of The Other Final, a film about the two lowest ranking teams in a football battle set in the small mountain kingdom of Bhutan and More Than Just a Game, the story of soccer on Robben Island. Daniel Gordon's film The Game of their Lives, shows how in soccer too, sometimes David wins against Goliath and goes in search of the North Korean team that won against Italy in the 1966 World Cup, sending one of the strongest teams in the world packing and winning the hearts of English fans.

Go to www.soccercinema.co.za for tour dates, further info & daily blogs.