KICKING IT

The lives of homeless people are changed forever through an international soccer competition. This film follows six players as they set off for Cape Town, South Africa to play in the Homeless World Cup.





In the summer of 2006, while the football world's attention was focused on Germany, thousands of players around the globe were training hard and competing to be part of another World Cup ... The Homeless World Cup.
It had been a wild idea by a Scot and an Austrian -- to give homeless people a chance to change their lives through an international street soccer competition.
Five years later, the annual Homeless World Cup had become an internationally recognized sports competition.
500 homeless players from 48 nations would ultimately be selected to represent their country in Cape Town, South Africa - coming from such disparate parts of the world as war torn Afghanistan, the slums of Kenya, the drug rehab clinics of Dublin, Ireland, the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, the overflowing public shelters of Madrid, Spain, and the unforgiving city of St. Petersburg, Russia, where the homeless have no rights or identity.
Win or lose, for these players it would be the journey of a lifetime.
In Theatres
New York: opens June 13 City Cinemas Village East, 181 2nd Avenue, NYC. Box office: 212-529-6998
LA: opens June 27; Laemmle's Sunset 5, 8000 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood. Box Office 232-848-3500.
Washington, DC: opens June 27; Landmark E Street Cinema, 555 11th Street NW, Washington, DC. Box Office: 202-452-767