2022 Winners & Shortlists

Write a short summary of what happens in the film

The film starts on Mido the Egyptian ex-footballers. He starts to blame football fans for rooting for football more than other sports. An abstract transition takes us to the world of the non-football athletes, who are considered to be highly-ranked worldwide. Different cut scenes throughout their journey in their training courts as Mido starts to compare Egyptian football to other sports with a script that plays with words using common and similar sport terms between both worlds. The film takes us into vignettes from one champion to another while they are practicing their sports with a football element in each scene. Finishing back in Mido's world who admits that non-footballers have the upper hand, and ask the fans to root for them.

Cultural / Context information for the jury

Egyptian non-football sports suffers from neglect from the community despite being much more successful than Egyptian football. Egyptians usually shorten English terms. So words like "Backstroke" in Egyptian is "Back", "Benchpress" is "Bench"....etc "Three pointers" in Basketball and "Triple" in football in Arabic is the same word; "tholatheya". Mido is an outspoken international ex-footballer well known in Egypt for his outspoken and sometimes shocking demeanor

Provide the full film script in English.

You idolize us.. Root for us more than you root for them I get it… We’re completely different What we call a dangerous play… Is the name of their game And threefolds that we achieve once in a lifetime They deliver piles of them each match If 3-5-2 and 4-2-3-1 are formations that we merely follow For them they’re obstacle numbers to easily overcome We high-press... Low-press... But they benchpress... While we bench the unfit The “back” for us is a position, in their book it's a record And if it makes a difference whose soil we play on... For them the soil is where they take of... And if we're happy with a decent ranking... The first place is their daily routine... So if we judge by our differences… It's all in their favor Yet what we have in common, is always in your favor. We both try hard to make you proud. Root for them, just like you root for us. Banque Du Caire - Sponsors of the Egyptian Champion