30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
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Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Youth

Home Team (2017) 12

Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil | 2017 | 102 min.

This story follows an adolescent soccer prodigy poised for big-league success—so long as his hubris doesn’t get in the way. Everyone knows Tito is a whiz on the field, but his father insists he place equal emphasis on his studies. That balance topples, however, once an agent pegs Tito as a major talent and convinces the family to uproot from their rural Nogales home and relocate to Montevideo. Will Tito fulfill his dream? Or will his focus on soccer, to the detriment of everything else, sabotage his goals? Based on the Latin American best-seller by former soccer player Daniel Baldi.

CountryUruguay, Argentina, Brazil
Year2017
Duration102 min
Rating12
LanguageSpanish
SubtitleEnglish, Czech
Directed by Carlos Morelli
Screenplay Carlos Morelli
Director of Photography Sebastian Gallo
Music Hernan Gonzalez, Sergio Rojas
Edited by Santiago Bednarik, Carlos Morelli
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Biography

A screenwriter and director from Uruguay. He studied film at the ORT Uruguay University and graduated in screenwriting from ESCAC in Spain. He’s lectured at a number of foreign schools. He has shot more than 20 award-winning short films and documentaries, e.g. Warisover (2010) and Monstruo (2011). His feature debut is the film Home Team (Mi Mundial, 2017).

Teenagers, Sports, Romance, Family, Positive Choices

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