BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//http://www2.movingimage.us//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.23// X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260415T213014CEST-2108msmVA1@http://www2.movingimage.us DTSTAMP:20260415T193014Z DESCRIPTION:Wtih director Adam Sobel and Qatari migrant labor expert Mariam Bhacker of the Business &\; Human Rights Resource Centre in person for post-film discussion \n\n\nDir. Adam Sobel. 2017\, 92 mins. Digital proje ction. As the 2018 World Cup begins in Russia\, construction is well under way for the 2022 edition in Qatar\, where 1.6 million migrant workers labo r and live in the shadows of the same buildings they have been imported to make. By day these men sweat in perilous conditions to build the venues f or World Cup\; by night they compete in a “workers welfare” soccer tournam ent\, playing in the same stadiums that will one day host the world’s grea test players. The Workers Cup follows one team of men from Nepal\, India\, Ghana\, and Kenya whose only common ground is their love for soccer and t heir desires to earn better lives. Each match offers them a momentary esca pe from the homesickness and isolation they endure as the lowest class in the world’s richest country. Adam Sobel's penetrating and deeply humane do cumentary reveals an ad-hoc community of individuals pursuing universal dr eams who are nevertheless systematically constrained\, and celebrates a sp ort that unites the world yet subjugates the very people who struggle to m ake its greatest event possible. \; \n\n Opening Night Film of the 201 7 Sundance Film Festival. \;\n \n\n\n \n Tickets: $15 ($7 Museum membe rs / free for Silver Screen members and above). Order tickets \;online . (Members may contact members@movingimage.us with questions regarding onl ine reservations.) \n \n \n Ticket purchase includes same-day admission to the Museum (see gallery hours). View the Museum’s ticketing policy here. For more information on membership and to join online\, visit our membersh ip page. \n \n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n Screening \;sponsored by the Open So ciety Foundations and Concordia \n\n\n \n\n\n About the speakers: \n\n\n A dam Sobel\, director of The Workers Cup\, \;is a filmmaker who grew up in Arkansas\, spent the past five years in Qatar\, and recently relocated to Chicago. He has produced television and journalism around the Middle E ast for outlets including The Guardian\, CNN\, and ITN. Sport’s role in so ciety is key to Adam’s work. \; \n \n \n Mariam Bhacker joined the Bus iness &\; Human Rights Resource Centre in 2016. She is responsible for developing the Resource Centre’s Qatar and UAE programmes\, with a specifi c focus on the treatment of migrant workers in the construction and hospit ality industries. \; \n \n DTSTART:20180608T193000 DTEND:20180608T210000 LOCATION:Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room SUMMARY:The Workers Cup END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR