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The Workers Cup
directed by Adam Sobel, fl. 2009; produced by Rosie Garthwaite, 1980- and Ramzy Haddad, fl. 2005, Mediadante and Workers Cup Film Limited (Warren, NJ: Passion River Films, 2017), 1 hour 26 mins
The Workers Cup is set inside the labor camps of Qatar, where the World Cup is being built on the backs of 1.6 million migrant workers. The film follows a team of laborers living a real-life version of fantasy football. By day they sweat to build the World Cup, by night they compete in a “workers welfare” foot...
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directed by Adam Sobel, fl. 2009; produced by Rosie Garthwaite, 1980- and Ramzy Haddad, fl. 2005, Mediadante and Workers Cup Film Limited (Warren, NJ: Passion River Films, 2017), 1 hour 26 mins
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The Workers Cup is set inside the labor camps of Qatar, where the World Cup is being built on the backs of 1.6 million migrant workers. The film follows a team of laborers living a real-life version of fantasy football. By day they sweat to build the World Cup, by night they compete in a “workers welfare” football tournament, playing in the same stadiums that will one day host the world’s greatest players. We join one team of men from Nepal...
The Workers Cup is set inside the labor camps of Qatar, where the World Cup is being built on the backs of 1.6 million migrant workers. The film follows a team of laborers living a real-life version of fantasy football. By day they sweat to build the World Cup, by night they compete in a “workers welfare” football tournament, playing in the same stadiums that will one day host the world’s greatest players. We join one team of men from Nepal, India, Ghana, and Kenya whose only common ground is their love for football. Each match offers them a momentary escape from the homesickness and isolation they endure as the lowest class in the world’s richest country.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Rosie Garthwaite, 1980-, Ramzy Haddad, fl. 2005, Mediadante, Workers Cup Film Limited, Nathan Halpern, fl. 2011
Author / Creator
Adam Sobel, fl. 2009
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Passion River Films
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2017 The WorkersCup Limited
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Yesterday in Rwanda
directed by Davina Pardo; produced by Davina Pardo (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2005), 15 mins
Yesterday in Rwanda is a haunting film that focuses on one survivor of the genocide and her experience of trauma, displacement and hope. Claire Wihogora emigrated to Canada in 1998, four years after her father, brother and countless other family and friends were killed. The film portrays Claire carrying on with he...
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directed by Davina Pardo; produced by Davina Pardo (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2005), 15 mins
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Yesterday in Rwanda is a haunting film that focuses on one survivor of the genocide and her experience of trauma, displacement and hope. Claire Wihogora emigrated to Canada in 1998, four years after her father, brother and countless other family and friends were killed. The film portrays Claire carrying on with her life today in Toronto, while inevitably haunted by terrible memories of Rwanda. On film she recounts how she and her sister hid in th...
Yesterday in Rwanda is a haunting film that focuses on one survivor of the genocide and her experience of trauma, displacement and hope. Claire Wihogora emigrated to Canada in 1998, four years after her father, brother and countless other family and friends were killed. The film portrays Claire carrying on with her life today in Toronto, while inevitably haunted by terrible memories of Rwanda. On film she recounts how she and her sister hid in the brush while all around her people were massacred. Nothing can help her forget the hundred days when 800,000 members of the Hutu and Tutsi tribes were slaughtered. Yet she finds comfort in telling her story in schools "to share it to make sure it never happens again." Also, she has founded Women in Rwanda, which links female genocide survivors now living in North America in a support system. The film achieves a fascinating interplay of past and present, as images from Claire's everyday life in Toronto (grey tones) are differentiated from the images of Kigali rendered in color. College Adult
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Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Davina Pardo
Author / Creator
Davina Pardo
Date Published / Released
2005
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Rwanda, Tutsi Genocide (1994), History curriculums, War, Rwandan Civil War and Genocide, April 7–July 15, 1994, Sociology, History, Origins, Documentation of Crimes, Current Affairs, Hutu, Tutsi, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2005. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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