(Image © Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin)
When I got the chance to get a preview of Ayat Najafi’s film Football under Cover last August, I liked the film so much that I wrote a post about it. This post has since had loads of visits (thanks guys!), and especially with the Berlinale starting tomorrow, the film has drawn [...]

“Football under Cover” is the working title of Iranian filmmaker Ajat Najafi and his German colleague David Assmann’s new project. It’s about a friendly game played between two women’s teams - the multicultural BSV Aldersimspor from Berlin Kreuzberg and the Iranian women’s national team - in Tehran.

Hence the name: both the German and the Iranian [...]