05-24-2021, 08:32 AM
There is another great non-Hollywood movie I can recommend to you guys. It's a Sri Lankan movie where is there virtually no real movie industry. Machan (2008), An Italian-Sri Lankan comedy film written, directed and produced by Uberto Pasolini.
The story is quite interesting and pretty amazing. It even makes it better because the whole thing was based on a true story. 2 friends from a slum area trying to migrate to Europe get rejected. Accidently they find this an invitation to a handball tournament in Germany in a new paper. They create a fake handball team so they could get into Germany. The fake team becomes real when they get "members", few Afghans, a policeman, a gravedigger, etc. People from all sorts of backgrounds, races, and religions. Their plan is to get Germany and then vanish but that doesn't work since organizers waiting for them at Ari port. They had to work through their differences and play a game they even never heard of. Germany Police raid their hotel to find they have vanished without a trace.
Not a type of movie I would usually watch but I found this one is something worth watching. It's interesting, funny and makes you want to watch till the end. Also, it shows when we are desperate how people forget about their nationalities, races, religions and work together for the common good. I don't even know if this is a commercial movie but I read it won a bunch of international awards. You can find it in Youtube if you want to watch it.
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The story is quite interesting and pretty amazing. It even makes it better because the whole thing was based on a true story. 2 friends from a slum area trying to migrate to Europe get rejected. Accidently they find this an invitation to a handball tournament in Germany in a new paper. They create a fake handball team so they could get into Germany. The fake team becomes real when they get "members", few Afghans, a policeman, a gravedigger, etc. People from all sorts of backgrounds, races, and religions. Their plan is to get Germany and then vanish but that doesn't work since organizers waiting for them at Ari port. They had to work through their differences and play a game they even never heard of. Germany Police raid their hotel to find they have vanished without a trace.
Not a type of movie I would usually watch but I found this one is something worth watching. It's interesting, funny and makes you want to watch till the end. Also, it shows when we are desperate how people forget about their nationalities, races, religions and work together for the common good. I don't even know if this is a commercial movie but I read it won a bunch of international awards. You can find it in Youtube if you want to watch it.