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Copa 71 (PG) (AD)

Senior Community Screening

,Cinema 2
A group of women footballers celebrate in a huge stadium, holding an award cup.

An inspiring documentary about the 1971 Women’s Football Cup, and sexism in the football sphere. Directed by Rachel Ramsay and James Erksine

Told by the pioneering women who participated in it and built from archive unseen for fifty years, this is the extraordinary story of the 1971 Women’s Football World Cup, a tournament witnessed by record crowds that has been written out of sporting history.

August 1971. Football teams from England, Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark and Italy are gathering at Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium. The scale of the tournament is monumental: crowds of over 100,000 hollering fans turn this historic stadium into ‘a cauldron of noise and heat’ match after match.

But this is a tournament unlike anything that’s happened before. The players on the pitch are all women. This is Copa 71, the unofficial Women’s World Cup. Dismissed by both FIFA and domestic football associations around the world, this event has been entirely written out of history. Until now.

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USA 2023 dirs Rachel Ramsay, James Erksine 90 min

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Good Girls Don't

In collaboration with the Women Over Fifty Film Festival, we are screening the short film Good Girls Don't before Copa 71. A Filipina-Canadian girl defies her mother’s warning that she will turn into a boy if she plays basketball.

Ana de Lara | Canada | Drama | 15min 15

Cinema 2

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