Off Sides
5.9
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.
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Tomáš Bojar Director · Rozálie Kohoutová Director Šimon Dvořáček Cinematographer
First release April 7, 2019 · Produced in Czechia · Languages Arabic, Czech, English
Production
Cinema Arsenal
Production
Česká televize
Production
Czechia
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Languages
Original title
Letní hokej
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Arabic · Czech · English
Release dates
Switzerland · April 7, 2019
Premiere · Visions du Réel
Czechia · July 18, 2019
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Czechia
June 29, 2019 · Premiere · Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
September 6, 2020 · Premiere · Zlín Film Festival
Ukraine
July 13, 2019 · Premiere · Odesa International Film Festival
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