Cinema
Soccer Stories
Historias de fútbol
Andrés Wood · 1997
Synopsis
Three stories of passion for football, in three distant towns of Chile. In Peñalolén, in the Santiago conurbation, a promising player at a neighbourhood club must decide whether to accept the dubious arrangements of an official. In Calama, children fight over a ball that has left the stadium during a match between Cobreloa and the Universidad de Chile. On the island of Chiloé, Francisco, a young man from Santiago, is stranded on the day of a national team match, and two sisters, owners of the only television set in the area, quarrel over his amorous initiation.
Context
The first feature film by its director, it was presented in 1997 at the San Sebastián festival, where it received a mention as best new director, and drew some six hundred thousand viewers in Chile according to the magazine Hachetetepé. It won awards the following year at Huelva, Gramado, Cartagena, Asunción, Trieste and Taipei. Daniel Muñoz, Néstor Cantillana, Boris Quercia and María Izquierdo appear in the cast.
Who it is for
A film of about ninety minutes, made up of three independent stories; distributed in English under the title Soccer Stories.
Prizes and reception
Honoured at San Sebastián in 1997, then rewarded the following year at six festivals, from Spain to Brazil and Taiwan.
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