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- 2018
- Passion River Films
- 1 h 32 m
- 2018
- Passion River Films
- 1 h 32 m
Summary Inside the labor camps of Qatar, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of their own: The Workers Cup.
Directed By: Adam Sobel
- 2018
- Passion River Films
- 1 h 32 m
- 2018
- Passion River Films
- 1 h 32 m
The Workers Cup
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Summary Inside the labor camps of Qatar, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of their own: The Workers Cup.
Directed By: Adam Sobel
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
67
82% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
18% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Aping sporting conventions, The Workers Cup relates a riveting underdog tale about a quest for glory, while simultaneously probing the reality faced by the poorest people in the world’s wealthiest country.
Adam Sobel’s 2017 documentary, The Workers Cup is a maddening heart-wrenching inside look into a group of construction workers in Qatar, building facilities in preparation for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Though there are moments of real joy and liberation during the games, everything outside of the matches is cloaked in a mood of lost dreams and stunted futures.
More than a documentary, the film is an exposé on the world of global capitalism’s callousness that handily demonstrates their inhumanity.
While it would have been easy for Mr. Sobel to unleash an angrier screed against the inequalities shown, some well-placed images tell us all we need to know about the haves and have-nots here.
What emerges is a nuanced, if somewhat undernourished, portrait of the poorest inhabitants of the richest country in the world.
Sobel’s inexperience with the feature-length format and the requirements of specific genres shows, with Workers Cup constantly struggling to reconcile the horrible fate of what are essentially modern-day slaves with the aspirational side and dreams of victory and beyond that are the end game of any underdog sports story.
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Awards
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
CPH:DOX
• 1 Nomination