The Blue Girl: A poignant sports film on football changing lives

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The Blue Girl: A poignant sports film that reminds us of footballs ability to manifest change..

The real life Blue Girl was also an Esteghlal fan...

In this remote hamlet on the Kurdistan mountains in western Iran Hima, The Blue Girl in Keivan Majidis eponymous 2020 debut feature film, lives.X)..

But it would be stretching things to assume that Tuesdays screening in Kolkata, as part of 2nd Bulls Eye International Sports Film Festival, around the time Esteghlal were playing Sepahan in the Iranian top tier was anything but a coincidence..

Hima, the narrator and active participant with three girls in the arduous process of building a pitch on a mountaintop, points out how difficult it is for girls to play football..