Champions
social project, short film
2016 | 8min | Kurdish
On the day of the football European Championship finals 2016, a group of Kurdish children from a refugee camp in Northern Iraq, tries to contact the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland to register their team for the football World Championship in 2018.
Champions was filmed 2016 in a refugee camp between Erbil and Mosul, where Kurdish and Syrian refugees from Kobane are accommodated. The Film was developed in cooperation with film maker Bahman Ghobadi.
with
Barzan Ismahel, Ali Gwan Kasm, Nwre Braem, Noori Baddaldin - Qamishlo, Maher Redini Ali, Barzan Ismail Omar, Loran Adnan Ali, Muhammad Mervan Hussein, Anwar Chengiz Khan Shikh Mus, Nihad Mervan Muhammad, Diar Abduljalil Muhammad, Ali Zhuwan Ghasem, Matin Jalal Ahmad, Ivan Aladdin Hasan, Mamand Juwan Hussein, Alla Ismail Omar, Khaled Ismail Omar, Sami Samir Hassam, Hasan Abdulhakim Hasan, Roni Abdulahafoor Ido, Mahmud Mustafa Muhammad, Shirwan Brahim Omar, Rebaz Ramazan Hussein, Riaz Ali Hussein, Matin Jalal
boys / sounds
Khijjo Mohamed, Waied Aie, Hseen Alhamo
screenplay and directed by
Anastasija Bräuniger
production
Anastasija Bräuniger
editing
Franziska von Berlepsch
camera
Tufan Abubakr, Soran Ebrahim
colour correction
Shoreh Shakoory
special thanks to
Darija Bräuniger, Christoph Friedrich
special thanks for all the support
Bahman Ghobadi, mijflm
"This film manages to describe with wit the homelessness of a people who have no national team and no national jerseys."
23. Filmfestival Türkei Deutschland
"filmmaker (and artist/actress) Anastasija Bräuniger has given us eight minutes of pure uplift"
Picture this Post
2017
Award Diritto Al Corto Roma
2017
Best Human Rights Bucharest Short Film Festival
2017
1. Prize Golden Wings Award FLYING FILM FESTIVAL
2017
Special Jury Award SHORT to the Point Festival
2017
3. Prize Film Festival Turkey / Germany
2017
Nomination XV Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos
San Sebastian
2017
Nomination Independent Political/Activism
Short Film Festival Athens
2017
Nomination Oslo Independent Film Festival
2017
Nomination Timisoara Refugee Art Film Festival
2017
Nomination Best Director TMC London Film Festival
2017
Nomination The Cump Film Festival Nairobi