Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 43'
Osuman and Mohammed are two Ghanese youths who are passionate about soccer. They play for Intermillas, a team from Acera, and dream of having a future as champions. They are about to move to Italy for a period of try-outs with Sampdoria. They are going through their last days in Ghana with two minds. On they one hand, they are afraid to leave their families and find themselves alone in a continent that they do not know with a different climate, culture, and religion. On the other hand, they are happy about the chance they have of changing their lives. The trainer Carlo Guelfo is to accompany them to Genoa. He is a one-of-a-kind talent scout for various soccer teams with an innate fatherly instinct.
"A voyage and three voyagers forced to get to know each other, to measure themselves up against each other, and to help each other across the distance that divides Africa from Europe and across the distance that separates dreams and the reality of things" (Alessandro Angelini).
Biography
film director
Alessandro Angelini
Alessandro Angelini (Rome, 1971) worked for various press agencies as a photo reporter before he began his career as second and first assistant director. He collaborated for ten years with various directors including Nanni Moretti, Mimmo Calopresti, and Francesca Comencini. His Ragazzi del Ghana won the first DOC contest at the 2000 Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Strategia
della rottura (cm, doc.,
1996), What’s
globalizzazione? (cm, doc., 1997), Sopravvivere allo sviluppo (cm,
doc., 1998), Fame For Your Name - Hiphop A Roma (cm,
doc., 1998), Ragazzi
del Ghana (mm, doc., 2000), Un cuento de boxeo (mm,
doc., 2001), La
flor más linda de mi querer (doc., 2003), Barriletes
(doc., 2003), El
Barrilete (2005).
Cast
& Credits
Director and director of photography: Alessandro Angelini.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Alessandro Angelini, Massimo De Pascale, Giorgio Gasparini.
Editor: Roberto Paoletti.
Sound: Giorgio Gasparini.
Production company and Italian distribution: Donatella Botti per Bianca Film, via Fedele Lampertico 7, 00191 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-3296790, fax +39-06-3296791, e-mail biancafilm@flashnet.it.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Alessandro Angelini, Massimo De Pascale, Giorgio Gasparini.
Editor: Roberto Paoletti.
Sound: Giorgio Gasparini.
Production company and Italian distribution: Donatella Botti per Bianca Film, via Fedele Lampertico 7, 00191 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-3296790, fax +39-06-3296791, e-mail biancafilm@flashnet.it.
TFF
prizes
