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director
Jorge Gurevich
author
Hagai Lipschitz, Jorge Gurevich
camera
Amnon Zalait
production
Green Productions (IL)
coproduction
ostlicht filmproduktion (DE), United King films (IL), TV Zero (BR)
distributor
JIP film & verleih
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Israel Film Fund, Ministry of Culture and Sport, The Israel Film Council, Ancine, BRDE, FSA
publication
2019

Back to Maracaña

Summer 2014. 40 years old Roberto, divorced with a failing business, his son Itay (12), a spoiled teenager that snubs his father and despises soccer, and the grandfather Samuel, an enthusiastic soccer fan that recently found out he doesn’t have much time to live, depart spontaneously to the World Cup Games in Brazil – their former homeland. Their unplanned trip turns into a wild journey that changes all of them…