STEFANO LIBERTI E MARIO POETA

ITALIA, AFGHANISTAN | 2017 | 25'

"We are completely covered. The veil gives us some annoyance, but they allow us to play football only this way. We have made a compromise”, says Sabriha, captain of the Herat women's football team in Afghanistan. A group of girls found in football a way to stay together and emancipate themselves from the traditional role of women in Afghan society. The Taliban tried to stop them, but collided with the determination of the players and the coach. The Herat team is now a professional reality, aspiring to participate in international women's competitions. 

Stefano Liberti worked with Andrea Segre in South of Lampedusa (2005), in As a Man on Earth (2006) and in Green Blood (2010), before he co-directed Closed Sea (2012) with him. He was a journalist of the foreign board of "Il Manifesto" and a writer. In 2008 he published the book South of Lampedusa (minimum fax), winner of the Indro Montanelli writing prize. In 2011 he wrote the book Landgrabbing. As the land market creates new colonialism (minimum fax). He worked as a director for Raitre's broadcast “Once upon a time”, for which he made several documentaries. His documentary The Hell of children Wizards (2010) about minors accused of witchcraft in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, won the "Bad Ring Award - TV Series 2010".