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Slum Soccer

20 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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In one of Nairobi's slums, young leaders turn open ground into soccer pitches, building safe spaces for kids who otherwise have nowhere to play. The film follows these organizers as they claim public space, set up regular matches, and recruit coaches from within the community itself. Interviews with the young leaders, coaches, and neighborhood residents carry most of the film, laying out what the games actually do: keep children occupied and physically active, give them adults to answer to, and knit together a sense of belonging in a place where public infrastructure is scarce. The camera stays close to the pitches and the streets around them rather than treating the slum as backdrop, and the people on screen talk about their own lives as much as the program's effects on others. It is a small-scale, community-level account of sport used deliberately as a tool for youth development, told entirely through the voices of the people running it and playing in it.