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Offside

2000 · 120 min

A gentle, bittersweet slice of neighbourhood life where small hopes and quiet longing carry more weight than the big match.

Tagline
Life is like football.
Overview
Thirtysomething Suat still lives with his parents and works at his father's store when not practicing as goalie for the local football team, Esnaf Spor. The neighborhood's greatest wish is for Esnaf Spor to win the amateur league championship.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • ambition
  • love
  • friendship
  • coming-of-age
Places
  • small town
  • home
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour5
Realism8
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Serdar Akar
Starring
Müjde Ar, Savaş Dinçel, Rafet El Roman, Erkan Can, Şahnaz Çakıralp, Uğur Polat, Sezai Aydın, İsmail İncekara
Music
Fahir Atakoğlu
Cinematography
Mehmet Aksin
Runtime
120 min
Country
Turkey
Languages
Turkish

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