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Watch anywhereIn a remote mountain village in Kyrgyzstan, conservative traditions restrict women to domestic roles. Gazi defies those expectations by organising a women's football tournament, rallying her community against cultural resistance. Her efforts reveal a story of resilience, solidarity, and the slow, determined work of social change.
One tournament. One village. Every rule at stake
In the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, a single football tournament becomes an act of collective defiance. Kickoff is a documentary about what happens when women in a conservative rural community decide to play.
The village of Kök-Tash sits in a landscape where social expectations weigh heavily on women. Gazi, a determined local organiser, sets out to stage a women's football tournament despite resistance from those who see the game as incompatible with tradition. The film follows the women as they train, compete, and gradually assert a sense of identity and self-worth beyond the domestic sphere. It is a close-up portrait of community, cultural pressure, and the possibility of change in an isolated setting.
Roser Corella is a Berlin-based filmmaker and former video journalist whose award-winning work focuses on women, customary law, labour, and migration. Her films have screened at CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, and Thessaloniki IFF, among others.
Stefano Obino is a Berlin-based screenwriter and filmmaker. His documentary War Is Over received a Nastri d'Argento award in 2022, and his debut feature was a finalist at the David di Donatello Awards. Together, Corella and Obino bring complementary perspectives to documentary storytelling rooted in social issues.
The film is set in Kök-Tash, a rural village in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Corella and Obino are based in Berlin, placing this production in the wider tradition of German-produced documentary filmmaking that looks outward to stories of social change across the world.
Kickoff streams exclusively on GuideDoc, the documentary-only platform. You can watch it now alongside a curated library of football documentaries and films about women.
If Kickoff resonates, GuideDoc has several films that explore similar themes of community, identity, and resilience. At the Feet of My Mother examines women navigating tradition and change, while Bigger than Trauma looks at collective endurance under pressure. The Wild Brigade and Duality also offer close-up portraits of people redefining their circumstances.
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