Mi Amigo Alexis

You can always find Tito and his friends at the football field in their neighbourhood after school. Goalkeeper: Gloria, Tito’s slightly older sister, who adores football. Tito’s father is convinced Tito could have a great future as a footballer and drags him from club to club. The boy, however, would rather keep on studying. His sister Gloria would love to play football day and night, but her father does not notice her. One day, Tito and Gloria are busted on private terrain, and Tito hides in the trunk of a car. It appears to be the car of great football-player Alexis Sánchez.

Meeting their Chilean football hero turns Tito’s family’s lives upside down. It happens more often that parents see their dreams come true through their children. But that is not always the best way, as shown in Mi amigo Alexis. Tito’s father takes it so far, his family threatens to fall apart. Tito and Gloria’s adventures are interrupted by warm-coloured flashbacks showing the viewer Alexis’s life as a child in the streets of Chile, where he learned to play football. A film for the entire family, even the ones who don’t like kicking the ball…