Champions (2021 film)
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- Andrés Vicente Gómez
- Marco Gómez
- Stuart Sutherland
Fatima Al Banawi
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| Directed by | Manuel Calvo |
| Written by | Manuel Calvo |
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| Starring | Yassir Al Saggaf Fatima Al Banawi |
| Cinematography | Josep M. Civit |
| Edited by | Pablo Blanco |
| Music by | Amer Tashkandi |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Countries | Saudi Arabia Spain |
| Language | Arabic |
Champions (Arabic: أبطال) is a 2021 Saudi Arabian-Spanish sports comedy film written and directed by Manuel Calvo.[1] It is an Arabic-language remake of the 2018 Spanish film of the same name.[2] Starring Yassir Al Saggaf and Fatima Al Banawi.[3]
After losing a match, Khaled is summoned to a disciplinary court. The sentence comes down and Khaled is forced into unexpected community service: banished from his prestigious job, he must now train a team of amateur players with disabilities. A task he despises, before opening his eyes to these players who are often discriminated against because of their disability.[4]
Cast
- Yassir Al Saggaf as Khaled
- Fatima AlBanawi as Nada
- Khalid Alharbi as Nasser
- Walid Baeshin as The father
- Maya Bakhsh
- Khairia Nazmi
Production
Principal photography started at the end of February 2020 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with plans to shoot for 7 weeks there and then in Dubai,[5][6] but could not finish filming due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[7] The last scenes had to be filmed a year later, at the expense of the lifting of restrictions in the country.[7]