Off Sides

A wry, quietly awkward fly-on-the-wall trip where teenage bravado and cultural missteps play out in clumsy English, funny and faintly cruel at once.

Directed by

Rozálie Kohoutová, Tomáš Bojar

Genres

Documentary, Comedy

Overview

When the junior ice hockey team from the small town of Náchod, in the Czech Republic, sets off in a bus to Morocco to play the away game in an exchange programme, the players and their coach expect an easy victory and a cultural shock: “bring ear plugs”, the coach suggests them with a touch of undisguised condescendence, so as not to hear the call to prayer early in the morning. Both on and off the ice, Rozálie Kohoutová and Tomáš Bojar’s camera focuses on a few teenagers and their exchanges, simultaneously funny and cruel, in a clumsy English.

How it feels

Light, satirical, warm and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Coming-of-age, identity, race, friendship

Content

Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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