Let the Games Begin: A Season of Film & Sport
Fri 06 - Sun 15 Jun
The imminent Beijing Olympic Games demonstrate just how inextricably linked sports and politics, personal sporting achievements and the wider social context really are.
Let the Games Begin explores and celebrates the cultural and social significance of sport, its beauty and excitement. The films are global and diverse, depicting the entire spectrum of sport, from amateur to professional, mainstream to niche, but through them all runs a thread of collective passion, struggle and triumph. As an enthusiastic commentator might say – Let the Games Begin!
For more information visit watershed.co.uk/games
Let the Games Begin is a Watershed season with support from David Goldblatt, author of The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football.
Fee for all screenings: £6.00 full/£4.50 concessions
Showing in Let the Games Begin: A Season of Film & Sport:
Table Tennis Tournament
Members of eShed.net invite the audience from the evening’s screening of Ping Pong to join them for a competition to find the King or Queen of Ping. Further Information
Water Lilies Fri 06 - Thu 12 Jun
This ethereally beautiful French movie explores the developing sexuality of three 15-year-old girls in a Parisian satellite town, drawn together by a passion for competitive synchronised swimming. Further Information
This Fighting Spirit Sat 07 - Wed 11 Jun
Tiny Ghanaian shanty town Bukom is a factory for the toughest boxers in the world, and this incredible film follows two men and a woman as they battle their way to the rings of Europe and America to fight for the biggest prizes in the business. Further Information
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait Sun 08 Jun
A portrait on film, in action and in real time, using seventeen synchronised cameras each focusing solely on Zinédine Zidane, one of the world's greatest footballers, over the course of a single match.
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Substitute Sun 08 Jun
In Substitute we see a player's inaction, as Dhorasoo is overlooked for much of the tournament whilst his team, France, reach the final of the FIFA 2006 World Cup. Further Information
Ping Pong Sun 15 Jun
Ping Pong is an exhilarating and heartfelt saga of two childhood pals who find their schoolboy assumptions about their relative ping pong prowess shaken up over the course of two tournaments. Further Information
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