"In Iran, everything is possible and everything is impossible."
Premiered on 24 April 2008 in Germany. Check out imdb.com/title/tt1160008
for worldwide releases.
Video: Trailer "Football under Cover" (2008)
The Story: The documentary is about the first meeting of the female soccers from the Berlin team BSV AL-Dersimspor and the Iranian female national soccer team in Tehran in 2006. Although many of the Berlin females are from Muslim families the situation of women in Tehran was not easy to understand.
Central figure of the documentary is Marlene from the German team who organises the match: she travels to Tehran and initiates an exciting and difficult march through the Iranian institutions.
The documentary ends with the success of fairness and self-determination and the message: everything is
possible.
Video: Interview with director Ayat Najafi at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, April 2008. Hot Docs (founded in 1993) is North America's largest documentary festival. Since 1996, Hot Docs showcases and supports the work of Canadian and international documentary filmmakers and promotes excellence in documentary production www.hotdocs.ca.
Awards:
Teddy Award „bester Dokumentarfilm“ – Int. Filmfestspiele Berlin 2008
Volkswagen Teddy Publikumspreis – Int. Filmfestspiele Berlin 2008
Video: Interviews with Iranian women and the Iranian fashion designer Haniyeh Abedi about the influence of Western, European fashion on the Islamic costume.
The video ends with a catwalk presentation in the country's capital Tehran. You will see that the Islamic costumes are in line with Islamic codes but also current fashion trends.
Video by reuters.com