Football school

(2005, 25 min.)

Drama documentary from Bosnia. Target group: 8-12 year olds About Serbian Dejana and Muslim Jasmin who love playing football and want to go to football school. But what do you do when you don’t want – or are not allowed – to be with anyone but your own? The film is based on a Danish reconciliation project in Bosnia: Football schools where children from different ethnic groups meet, play and play together. Slowly, they break down prejudices about each other and parents have to revise their own attitudes when they see the children’s enthusiasm. Today, almost 30,000 Serbian, Croatian and Muslim children have attended football school together. The two kids start out hating each other, but at soccer school they discover that “the others” might not be as bad as their parents have said….

Script: Gunvor Bjerre. Direction: Lars Gudmund Hansen, Production: Lisbeth Lyngse. TV2 Denmark, SVT Sweden, NRK Norway, Bosnian, Croatian, Syrian and Albanian TV

Educational material for grades 2-5 in primary school.

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