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FC REFUGEE

By Sander FRANCKEN

SFFILM - as PROD

Drama - Development 2014

Alloume Ramazani, a former teacher from East Congo, ended up in Gasorwe Refugee Camp in Burundi. That is where he lives, with his family, and 10,000 other Congolese refugees. FC Refugee is based on the real story of Alloume and his succesful soccer team, FC Simba. Based on life as it really is in th

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- BURUNDI
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Sander FRANCKEN
- Synopsis
- Alloume Ramazani decides to set up a soccer team in the camp. His players are from the eight different tribes in the camp, where the scars of war and tribal problems still threaten peace and unity. Alloume is a rare political master who knows how to create balance. He is also an excellent coach. Just four games to go and he and his team have won the national championship of Burundi... But then his dream starts to fall apart. His best player is lured away by a competitor. The balance in the team is gone. As a result, Alloume’s authority is challenged, both by his players and his supporters in the camp. Old divisions along tribal lines are becoming more apparent. Alloume is desperate. Seeing the camp splitting into factions again is a thing he cannot possibly bear. Desperate and on the verge of insanity, he finds a solution and to everybody’s amazement, he manages to restore the balance in his team. Alloume has achieved something impossible, and he finds peace, within himself, and with his own life in the camp. And he has given new hope to many others. And to humanity as a whole: that is how the viewers will experience Alloume’s story. We all want to be Alloume Ramazani, or only be a little bit like him...
- Partners & financing
- Co-production partners in Germany, Belgium and/or France
- Beginning of shooting
- Feb 01, 2014