2023-05-09 10:00:15
He cine and the sport they have always gone hand in hand. The big and the small screen have always had a special place feature films sports. Now the trend of documentaries of sports is gaining strength and the female sport is struggling to gain a foothold. The offer not even close to sports in the men’s category, but at El Periódico we make a selection of those you can’t miss.
Alexia: Hard Work Conquers All (2022)
The best soccer player in the world opened up on the channel to Amazon Prime. In a documentary miniseries of 3 chapters (45 minutes), the Barça captain faces the toughest year at a sporting level in front of the cameras. During the 3 episodes, different key moments for Alexia are collected, such as the attendance record at the Camp Nou, the final of the Champions in Turin o to injury in the ligament of his left knee during a training session with the national team that has kept her off the pitch for more than a year. However, beyond the moments related to soccer, Alexia tells how she experienced the death of her father, her way of understanding soccer and her darkest moments with the injury.
Matildas: The World at Our Feet (2023)
series of Disney+ shows the intimacy of the Matilda’s, the Australian women’s soccer team, which will host the World Cup this summer. Some of its footballers like Sam Kerr, Ellie Carpenter y Mary Fowler they show the sacrifices they made and the struggles they overcame to reach the highest level. Despite the obstacles, they all pursue the same goal: leave a lasting legacy e inspire future generations so they never give up. The documentary miniseries has six chapters about 40 minutes.
The Japanese tennis player is presented in this documentary as a different athlete. She champions the serious problem of our society that is mental health in public, which is not exactly something common among elite athletes, in addition to opening up about her roots and the hard path that has led her to the world top. In the three-episode miniseries, he tells us about Tamaki, Naomi’s mother, forced to work overtime and sleep in her car to support her daughter’s career. Also from her father Leonard Francois, a Haitian who knew how to infect her daughter with the pride of her origins. He denounces the racism that Naomi has had to face throughout her life and recounts the mental health problems experienced by the tennis player.
Carolina Marín: I can because I think I can (2020)
This documentary miniseries (4 chapters) x-rays the life of Carolina Marín, the badminton world champion
The documentary follows Carolina on her road to recovery after a major knee injury, and the hard training to get back on the court. Through this unique access, the badminton legend shares the enormous work that goes into becoming an elite athlete, and the joys and disappointments of high-performance competition. In the year filmed, Carolina seeks to prove to herself and to her coach that she is the same as always.
Gymnast A: The Predatory Doctor (2020)
Netflix, through this documentary feature film, gives a voice to the gymnasts victims of the abuses of Dr. Larry Nassar, from the USA Gymnastics Federation, and the journalists who uncovered the toxic culture of a sport and a federation in the only important thing was to win. The former Federation doctor systematically abused for decades the great promises of American gymnastics and countless girls in his training days.
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