The Athletic Club Foundation, together with Sala BBK and the sponsorship of Euskaltel, is presenting a new edition of Thinking Football Film Festival, which will take place on March 13, 14, 20, 21, 27 and 28 at Sala BBK.
In total, 17 films will be screened (12 feature-length films), in which human and social stories will be told through football.
On the whole, the Thinking Football Film Festival programme aims to help raise key issues on understanding the global social phenomenon that football has become in the last hundred years. The films, which will be screened in their original version with subtitles, come from countries such as Iceland, Czech Republic, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Belgium, USA, Italy and Spain and most of them are hitherto unseen in Spain.
Attendance at all sessions is free until full capacity is reached and after each film there will be a short discussion about the film, with the attendance of the director or one of its main characters. Guests will be announced at a later date. As every year, audiences will be able to rate the films and at the end of the festival the Thinking Football Film Festival Audience Award will be announced.
Furthermore, for the second year running, the Thinking Football Film Festival will announce a contest that aims to promote video creation in Basque. This will have the collaboration of the Loraldia festival and the exclusive sponsorship of Euskaltel. The rules of the contest will be announced at a later date.
All information relating to the Thinking Football Film Festival can be followed on the website www.thinkingfootballfilmfestival.com
The Thinking Football Film Festival is sponsored by Sala BBK, Euskaltel, Hotel Melia Bilbao, BCD Travel And Comunitac and has the collaboration of Loraldia, Metro Bilbao, the magazines Cinemanía, Líbero and Panenka and the film and football festivals 11 mm Film Festival (Berlin), Cinefoot (Brazil) and Offside Fest (Barcelona). The Athletic Club Foundation would like to thank everyone for their invaluable help.
Friendly between Athletic Foundation's Goiztiri team and Shaolin Badgers
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The coach of this quirky London club, a fan of Dulwich Hamlet, asked to play a match against a team from the Athletic Club Foundation
Thinking Football 2023: Highlights
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Six days of film and football with special guests, such as: Thomas N'Kono, Liam Brady, Virginie Verrier, Ivano Bonetti, Miodrag Belodedici, Martin Bengtsson, Greg Cruttwell and the Brentford Penguins
“Marinette” wins the Thinking Football 2023 Audience Award
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The biopic, based on the life of French female footballer Marinette Pichon, was voted the best film of this year’s festival
Mighty Penguins: Nothing is Impossible
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The documentary about the Brentford Penguins FC, a team made up of children with Down's syndrome, moved the audience on the closing night of Thinking Football 2023
The life and struggles of Marinette Pichon
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Director Virginie Verrier spoke after we screened her biopic about France's greatest ever female footballer
Liam Brady: “I believe in Athletic Club”
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Irish football legend heaps praise on Athletic Club during the 'Liam Brady: The Irishman Abroad' post-screening discussion
Thomas N’Kono: "Our job is to make people happy"
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‘Green Lions’, a documentary produced by DAZN, paying tribute to the Cameroon side which took the 1990 World Cup by storm saw out Day 2 of Thinking Football
Thinking Football 2023 gets underway
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The Athletic Club Foundation's football film festival opened with 'La bella stagione', an Italian film about the Sampdoria side contaning the likes of Gianluca Vialli and Roberto Mancini
All set for Thinking Football 2023
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The 11th edition of Athletic Club's film festival opens with a special screening of 'Tigrar', winner of the 2022 Audience Award, and the premiere of 'La bella stagione' at 19:00 in Bilbao's Sala BBK
Introducing Thinking Football Film Festival 2023
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The 11th edition of Athletic Club Foundation’s film festival will take place between October 9-14, with special guests most nights