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2017 Sundance Film Festival Official Selection

The Workers Cup

Inside The Labor Camps of Qatar
A Tournament For Workers
2017 Hot Docs Film Festival Official Selection
*2019 Emmy Nominee*


Additional Theatrical Dates Coming Soon!


Selected Press for The Workers Cup
"A riveting underdog tale"

- Screen Daily
"An intimate portrait"

​-The Washington Post
"Delivers impressive dignity"​

​-The Guardian

"Remarkable Inside Access"

​​- Variety

"gently forces us to consider
what it literally means to be free".


-The Playlist

"Compared to the activism of players like Colin Kaepernick or the resilience of the Philadelphia Eagles, the men in Sobel’s film don’t even have a voice to be silenced.

You’ll be grateful that Sobel’s efforts try to change that."


-Roger Ebert.com

Press Coverage:
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The Workers Cup
Directed by Adam Sobel
Run Time: 92 min.
UPC: 
602573752500
GENRES: Documentary, Poverty, Sports, Sundance Titles
Synopsis: The Workers Cup is set inside the labor camps of Qatar, where the World Cup is being built on the backs of 1.6 million migrant workers.

The film follows a team of laborers living a real-life version of fantasy football. By day they sweat to build the World Cup; by night they compete in a “workers welfare” football tournament, playing in the same stadiums that will one day host the world’s greatest players.

We join one team of men from Nepal, India, Ghana, and Kenya whose only common ground is their love for football. Each match offers them a momentary escape from the homesickness and isolation they endure as the lowest class in the world’s richest country. 
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Now Available on DVD and VOD

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Director's Statement 

The Workers Cup is a portrait of our increasingly globalized world. Yet sport is universal, in all of its agony and ecstasy.

The 
World Cup is being built on the backs of our protagonists – still they can’t  help but love the game. This paradox holds the film in balance for me, and I believe it reveals some greater truth about how we find meaning in life.

​- Adam Sobel



Click Here To Download the Official Press Kit
For Booking Inquiries Please Contact:

​Josh Levin 
Passion River Films
732-321-0711 ex 180
josh@passionriver.com

Dates
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June 8 - 17​
Redstone Theater-Museum Of the Moving Image
New York City, NY
Past Screening
June 8 - 17​
Laemmle Monica Film Center
Los Angeles, CA
Past Screening
June 20
Alamo Cinema and Drafthouse
Lubbock, TX
Past Screening
June 24 - June 26
​Grand Illusion Cinema
Seattle, WA
Past Screening
June 29 - July 5
Angelika Pop-Up
Washington, DC
​Past Screening
July 10
Malco Ridgeway Theater
Memphis, TN
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​July 10
Utah Film Center
Salt Lake City, UT
*FREE SCREENING* - Event Page
July 8 - July 11
Parkway Theatre
Baltimore, MD
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