THANK YOU, NEW YORK
Kicking + Screening 2024 is in the books and what a tremendous event it was. Relive all the best moments in our festival recap.
Also, we announced our Golden Whistle winners for both the Feature and Short categories:
FEATURE: The Home Game
SHORT: Oor Wally
THE SCREENING ROOM
Israeli club Hapoel Be’er Sheva was plagued by a 40-year championship drought when new owner Alona Barkat arrived with a vision of tolerance and acceptance.
Matt Eliason scored an amazing goal while playing in an exhibition with Lionel Messi. This is the story of what happened next.
Can soccer bring an all-girls soccer team in an at-risk Philadelphia neighborhood to a place they only ever dreamed of?
Led by Brazilian star Marta, a Swedish club fights every day to lift the women’s game. Can they ever win?
The good, the bad, and the ugly of soccer immigration from Africa to Europe, as seen through the journeys of two young players.
Amid the centuries-old strife that tears the Middle East asunder, can soccer provide a unique ray of hope?
A terrifying cat-and-mouse game between a young girl trying to retrieve her soccer ball and a sniper in a window.
A celebration of the grace, the conflict, and the social compact found only in a pickup soccer game in South America.
“This friggin’ game is ruining my life.”
Hatch (Sylvester Stallone), from Victory