A soccer World Cup in Brazil sounds like euphoria and celebration. But this film, despite taking place in that context, does not focus on football, but rather on what happens behind it; in the life that barely moves through the corners of the rainy city, in the broken and distant relationship of a son (director Sergio Oksman) with his father with whom they have never been together.
Football only serves as an excuse to fill in the silences and gaps that exist between the two, full of commonplaces such as the formation of Brazil in '54 or why Italy plays in blue if the flag does not have that color.
O Futebol questions the importance of things by confronting the effusiveness of the environment versus the desolation of a hospital. The World Cup is off-field, a backdrop that fails to hide the fragility of a bond that seems doomed to disappear after the championship. As graphically shown in the documentary's central scene, where father and son are parked in a car outside the stadium, without a radio, trying to hear the screams to know if there was a goal or not, all in order to avoid facing what we call intimacy.
Category: Latin American Competition
Director: Sergio Oksman
Screenplay: Carlos Muguiro and Sergio Oksman
Producer: Sergio Oksman
Photography: André Brandão
Editing: Carlos Muguiro and Sergio Oksman
Sound: Joao Godoy, Vitor Coroa, Eduardo G. Castro
Duration: 68'
Spain, 2015
This film is presented within the framework of the Santiago International Documentary Festival, FIDOCS.
Nov 8, 2016
Tues, 5:15 p.m.
Room A1
Building A, floor 1
$2,500 General.
$1,500 Est. and 3ed.
Sale available only at GAM Ticket Office.