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  • 2010
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2010
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 24 m
After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin United

Summary In Israel, soccer is king, and Bnei Sakhnin has become the first team from an Arab town to win the prestigious Israeli Cup- and represent Israel in European competition. Fielding Arab, Jewish and foreign-born players, owned by an Arab, and coached by a Jew, Bnei Sakhnin’s success has begun to represent a symbol of coexistence, a potentia...

Directed By: Alexander H. Browne, Christopher Browne

  • 2010
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2010
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 24 m

After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin United

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary In Israel, soccer is king, and Bnei Sakhnin has become the first team from an Arab town to win the prestigious Israeli Cup- and represent Israel in European competition. Fielding Arab, Jewish and foreign-born players, owned by an Arab, and coached by a Jew, Bnei Sakhnin’s success has begun to represent a symbol of coexistence, a potentia...

Directed By: Alexander H. Browne, Christopher Browne

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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43% Positive
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57% Mixed
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An energetic, nicely balanced documentary containing all the necessary elements for sports reportage with the added advantage of meatier issues attached.
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70
Never forgetting the rush of the game, the directors regularly serve up fleet footage of the team’s highs and lows, allowing the rhythms of the field to set the film’s volatile beat.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
70
The resulting portrait is a cautionary rejoinder to typical sports-movie uplift, elucidating how athletics remain a dangerously precarious foundation upon which to construct lasting peace.
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60
Cinematically, though, After the Cup lacks the intimacy and narrative focus needed for a more wholly involving experience.
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60
The central notion in After the Cup is not the obvious; we can all live and work together to our greater achievement no matter where we are from or who we are. Rather, the question here is-will we-even when we lose the football game? It's a much smarter and more interesting question.
By Tim Cogshell FULL REVIEW
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The longer this profile of the mixed Muslim-Jewish crew follows players over the course of a difficult season, the more it establishes the difficulty of burdening one team to serve as a national symbol of reconciliation—and how hard it is to break free from triumph-of-the-underdog clichés with even the best of intentions
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There’s a great story to be told here, but After The Cup feels more like an outline than a finished draft
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Production Company Deaf, Dumb Blind, Dionysian Films, Reboot Films
Release Date May 21, 2010
Duration 1 h 24 m
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Website http://www.afterthecup.com/
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