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The Ball

2017 · 94 min

A quiet, hopeful character study that follows a boy's dream across continents, mixing warmth with the ache of displacement.

Directed by
Pasquale Scimeca
Genres
Drama
Starring
Vincenzo Albanese, David Koroma, Yabom Fatmata Kabia
Overview
Amin loves football. He wears an A.S. Roma jersey on the back of which he wrote the name of defender Rudiger. A distant relative of the player's mother lives in Amin’s village in Nigeria, so he became a catalyst for the boy's dream of a better life.

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Directed by
Pasquale Scimeca
Genres
Drama
Starring
Vincenzo Albanese, David Koroma, Yabom Fatmata Kabia
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How it feels

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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • immigration
  • ambition
  • family
  • identity
  • survival
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Pasquale Scimeca
Written by
Pasquale Scimeca
Starring
Vincenzo Albanese, David Koroma, Yabom Fatmata Kabia, Mohamed Djellouli
Runtime
94 min
Country
Italy
Languages
Arabic, English, Italian

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