The Blue Girl

The children from a small village high in the mountains of Kurdistan adore football. However, they do not have a square where they can kick the ball around to their heart’s content. A field where they can play is nowhere to be found in the village. The inhabitants are fed up with the children running after a ball in the steep, narrow streets or smashing their windows to pieces. The children are not very happy about it either. They dream of having a real football field in the village one day, so they can practice undistractedly. After yet another fight with the adults, they and an ex-football player decide to take matters into their own hands. They go into the mountains, looking for a place big and plain enough to turn it into a football field – not a simple task in the rocky environment.

The children in ‘The Blue Girl’ are filled with energy and creative ideas. The originality and persistence they display in order to make their dream come true, take the audience on a journey through this charming and inspiring story. Just like the job the children have taken upon themselves cannot be done overnight, the director also takes his time to register and to let the audience observe. Like this, behind the ever present, childlike enthusiasm, you slowly discover that equality between boys and girls is not obvious in Iranian society.