Nefta Football Club
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Nefta Football Club |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | Arabic |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 18 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Yves Piat |
| script | Yves Piat |
| production |
Damien Megherbi Justin Pechberty |
| music | Jérôme Rossi |
| camera | Valentin Vignet |
| cut | Jérôme Bréau |
| occupation | |
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Nefta Football Club is a 2018 French short film directed by Yves Piat .
action
In the border region between Tunisia and Algeria : In a Tunisian village, the children play football on a dusty field, and the question of whether the ball is out of the way often leads to arguments. Mohamed and his little brother Abdallah also quarrel about football, Mohamed is a fan of Messi , while Abdallah adores the Algerian footballer Riyad Mahrez . Both brothers are on a moped and when Abdallah wants to leave, he takes a detour up a hill to leave the Algerian side and thus the country of his idol. He sees a donkey wearing headphones. Curiously, he takes him to the Tunisian side to his brother.
Some distance away on the Algerian side, Salim and Ali are looking for that donkey. He is trained to cross the border unnoticed as a pack animal and courier and to come to his master Salim when he hears Adele's Someone Like You . The animal has now been undetectable for two days. It turns out that Salim's unmusical henchman Ali didn't put Adèle on the player for the animal, but rather a song by Cheik Hadèl.
Mohamed discovers that the donkey's bags are filled with packets full of heroin . He pretends to his little brother that the white powder is detergent and loads the bags onto his scooter trailer. The brothers secretly bring the booty home, where Mohamed hides it under his bed. The next day he visits a friend to whom he shows a small bag full of heroin. He would buy the material from him. When Mohamed wanted to show him all of the booty, the bag with the packages disappeared. Abdallah carried them to the football field to show his friends the “detergent”. When Mohamed comes to the soccer field shortly afterwards, Abdallah happily tells him that they have taken the powder for marking lines on the field, so that in future the quarrels about a line cut will come to an end. Mohamed remains stunned.
production
After Tempus fugit (2001), Nefta Football Club was the second short film directed by Yves Piat. In the story, Piat dealt with an incident from his childhood when he and a friend found drugs at an abandoned campsite and later sunk them in a river out of perplexity. The shooting took place in Tozeur and Nefta as the originally planned work in and around Zagora in Morocco proved to be too expensive. The film was shot within six days; both child actors were in front of the camera for the first time.
Nefta Football Club had its premiere on October 24, 2018 as part of the Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier Festival (Cinemed) in Montpellier . In 2019 the film was shown at the Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand and the Chicago International Film Festival, among others . In Germany, the film was shown for the first time in spring 2019 at the 11mm - 16th International Football Film Festival Berlin.
Awards (selection)
Even before the film was released, the screenplay won the audience award at the Premiers Plans d'Angers festival in 2017. The film received the Audience Award at the Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand in February 2019 and was shown in the national competition for the Grand Prix. The film won the Audience Award and the Jury Award for Best Short Film Comedy at Aspen Shortsfest. Nefta Football Club won the Short Film Grand Prix at the Festival du film de Sarlat and received a Gold Hugo nomination for Best Short Film at the Chicago International Film Festival in 2019. The film was nominated for the short film award at the Seattle International Film Festival .
Nefta Football Club was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Short Film in 2020 . It also received a César nomination in the Best Short Film category
Web links
- Nefta Football Club in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website of the film
Individual evidence
- ^ Celine Roustan: Nefta Football Club . shortoftheweek.com, October 22, 2019.
- ^ A b John Higgins: Interview Special: Yves Piat: "Nefta Football Club" . filmandtvnow.com, August 16, 2019.
- ^ Murielle Dreux: Yves Piat, un nantais nominé pour l'Oscar et le César du meilleur court-métrage avec "Nefta Football Club" . france3-regions.blog.francetvinfo.fr, January 4, 2020.
- ↑ Nefta Football Club on 11-mm.de