KICK OUT POVERTY

A football team represents Greece in a world cup and wind the Fair Play Award. The Greek Homeless Football Team competes with other homeless teams (like the Indonesia team whose players are HIV positive) in Poland. The film follows the homeless players in their first journey abroad, while they score and receive goals, and prove that football, sοcialization and tolerance can become important “weapons” for one to deal with the hardships of a life that seems lost and tries to find ways to deal with social exclusion.

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY : Menelaos KARAMAGHIOLIS
CINEMATOGRAPHY : Panagiotis PAPAFRAGKOS
CINEMATOGRAPHY-LONDON : Tania FREIMUTH
EDITING : Yiannis XIROYCHAKIS
SOUND: Stelios BOUZIOTIS
PRODUCTION : PAUSILYPON FILMS