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Kicking + Screening Football Film Festival, the world's top international football film festival, returned for a 2nd year to London’s Everyman Cinemas, kicking off on Friday, Sept 28, and running through Thursday Oct 4.
After the sold-out success of the inaugural festival in London, K+S London 2 featured another week of the best films about the world's greatest game and more than a few very special guests.
To mark the 20th anniversary of the publication of Nick Hornby’s game-changing book, the festival opened with a beautiful 35mm print screening of Fever Pitch at Everyman's Screen on the Green in Islington, introduced by Arsenal & England legend Tony Adams. Closing night at the Everyman Maida Vale was a sold-out gala event, with the world premiere of The Beautiful Game, directed by Victor Buhler and Julian Cautherley, and special guests Patrick Vieira, Robert Pires, and Cyrille Regis.
K+S London 2 counted as members of their supporters group the Professional Footballers Association, We R Interactive, the Forest Studios, Estrella beer, the St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel, Paul Ridley Limited, NuLeaf Graphics, and Arsenal Community.
K+S London 2 Lineup
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Friday 28th September Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Nick Hornby's classic book about a football fan's attempts to reconcile his obsessive love of the game with his job, his romantic relationships, and his life.
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Saturday 29th September The morning kicks off at 9.00am at Haverstock School with an hour's coaching and games with Arsenal Community coaches. All kids will then be picked up and taken to cinema for the film about Gunners icon Thierry Henry's move to Major League Soccer's New York Red Bulls in 2010. |
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Sunday 30th September Tony Palmer's inspiring film tells the story of Bobby Moore, who passed into football legend as the captain who in 1966 led England to its only World Cup victory.
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Monday 1st October The story of the Danish national football team’s rise to glory in the period 1979-92. It is the inside story of their transformation from amateurs to European Championship-winning heroes: Simonsen, Laudrup, Poulsen and Elkjær. |
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Monday 1st October The story of the "Swedish Model" - the social compact developed by Swedish governments between the 1930s and the 1970s - and how Sven-Göran Eriksson’s IFK Göteborg used it to shake European football to the core.
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Tuesday 2nd October In May 1994, Agostino Di Bartolomei, beloved captain of Roma’s championship-winning side of the 80s, commits suicide with a gunshot to the heart in his villa San Marco di Castellabate near Salerno. This film talks to his family, friends, team-mates and journalists to try to understand why.
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Tuesday 2nd October A group of students from Chico State University in the United States travel to Spain on a mission to understand the rivalry between two of the biggest clubs in world football, Real Madrid and Barcelona.
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Wednesday 3rd October The remarkable and true story of an all-girls football team competing, living, and thriving in an at-risk urban neighborhood in Philadelphia.
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Wednesday 3rd October A fascinating account of life on football’s last frontier: India. Daniel Glynn's film follows the drama as two Mumbai teenagers beat off competition from 2,000 other boys to win trials with London club Queens Park Rangers.
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Thursday 4th October All over Africa, people are using soccer to lift themselves up, to create change in their communities and to pave the way for progress. This film weaves together a clutch of unforgettable stories from across the continent about African men, women and children defying the odds, on and off the pitch
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