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Movie Review: “The Workers Cup” Is Uncomfortably Real

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Inside Qatar’s labor camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of their own.

“The Workers Cup” is unquestionably a competent documentary: it is profound, honest and uncomfortably touching. And, that, my friend, is exactly what documentaries are supposed to be!

Do not be fooled by the title. Despite the fact that the movie really portraits the games organized for the Asian and African workers from Qatar labor camps (working on the 2022 World Soccer Cup future venues), “The Workers Cup,” more precisely, targets the underlying human misery so densely lived by these hard-working “footballers” – considering their self-definition.

In “The Workers Cup,” Adam Sobel delivers art. His camera is wise enough to catch every subtle moment of naïve hope, hopeless pain… and painful lives. All of these moments, each one, disguised in a tournament – that means nothing for some and, yet, means so much for so many.

Our comprehension of the subject is, indeed, limited. We, most certainly, would not face their suffering the same way… quite probably we would not survive one single day of their lives.

However… we are now able to have a glimpse. A must see!

Now playing in select theaters in New York and Los Angeles

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