TATTOO YOUR DREAMS

ROYAHAYE KHALKOOBI-SHODEH

By Mehdi GANJI

IRANIAN INDEPENDENTS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2021

A few football-loving teenagers from different regions of Iran compete against each other so that they can move to Spain to receive football education. Their parents expect them to save their families with the money they earn through football, but their journey to Spain presents its own grueling challenges.

    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Social issues, Children's
    • Countries
    • IRAN, SPAIN
    • Languages
    • FARSI, ENGLISH, SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 71 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Mehdi GANJI
    • Writer(s)
    • Mehdi GANJI
    • Producer(s)
    • Behzad TAVAKOLI
    • Synopsis
    • Couple of talent football camps are organized and held in some cities in Iran, together with collaboration of the Spanish Football League, La Liga. The La Liga veteran football experts are to see, work and then select 17 boys between 11 to 13 who would be later dispatched to the prestigious football camps in Spain to complete the course and receive the diplomas. Plenty of boys from all around the country are willing to take part in these camps along with their families. Hopes and wishes of many of these families rest on this opportunity. Despite coming from different cultural backgrounds, they all think of football similarly: a launch pad that secures the future of their family. Parents hope for their children to go to Spain or other European countries and being recruited by a professional football clubs in near future, just to change the economic and social situations of their families. The boys, on the other hand, can already imagine themselves as football stars, although they have never been abroad and obtaining even a Schengen Visa could be a source of trouble for them as well.