NOT JUST FOOTBALL
From genocide to a world football tournament, the incredible story of Darfur United
(VAI ALLA VERSIONE ITALIANA)

Duration: 70' (TV version 52')
Year: 2018
Director: Paolo Casalis
Tag: Bio, Sport, Football
Subtitles: English, Spanish, Italian
Produced by: Produzioni Fuorifuoco
Distributed by: Produzioni Fuorifuoco

In 2005, Gabriel Stauring, a young and enterprising activist from California, decides to travel to Africa - with a camera in hand - to do what he can to help the thousands of refugees from Darfur escaping from a cruel and dramatic civil war in Sudan.
Eight years later, Gabriel's enthusiasm is challenged with disappointment: he has since created an NGO and is still risking his life and facing outstanding obstacles, but the international community is no longer interested in his mission.
What can he do, to re-capture the world's attention?
In 2012, he creates "Darfur United", a soccer team made of young Darfuri refugees living in the camps of Chad.
Through exclusive access to 500 hours of video footage taken directly by Gabriel Stauring and other characters in the flim, Not Just Football follows the journey of Darfur United players, from the dust of the refugee camps to the lights of a world football tournament, and along the complex path of going from being refugees to becoming citizens.
Not Just Football.