Release Date: May 21st, 2010
Not Yet Rated|1 hr 24 min
Plot Summary
An Arab team represents Israel in a European competition for the first time.
Director: Alexander Browne, Christopher Browne
Genres: Documentary
Distributors: Variance Films
The longer this profile of the mixed Muslim-Jewish crew follows players over the course of a difficult season, the more it establishes the difficulty of burdening one team to serve as a national symbol of reconciliation—and how hard it is to break free from triumph-of-the-underdog clichés with even the best of intentions show more
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