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Description: The Workers Cup Film is a documentary feature film directed by Adam Sobel and produced by Ramzy Haddad and Rosie Garthwaite about a group of migrant workers in Qatar. The Workers Cup is set inside the labour labor camps of Qatar, where the FIFA World Cup is being built on the backs of 1.6 million migrant workers. The film follows a team of labourers laborers living a real-life version of fantasy football. By day they sweat to build the World Cup; by night they compete in a “workers welfare” foot
Inside the labor camps of Qatar, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of their own: The Workers Cup.
In 2022, Qatar will host the biggest sporting event in the world, the FIFA World Cup. But right now, far away from the bright lights, star athletes and adoring fans, the tournament is being built on the backs of 1.6 million migrant workers. The Workers Cup is a feature-length documentary giving voice to the men who are laboring to build sport’s grandest stage.
Sixty percent of Qatar’s total population are laborers. From India, Nepal, Bangladesh, the Philippines, and, increasingly from Africa, some of the world’s poorest people are working the lowest level jobs to ensure the World Cup can be hosted in the world’s richest country. These men work exceedingly long hours for scant salaries, and they live isolated in labor camps which are by law kept outside city limits.
Hakawati - We Are The Stories We Tell
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