RIO DE JANEIRO - The World Cup and the Olympic Games always promise beautiful dreams and opportunities for the inhabitants of the host country. But do those dreams come true? The documentary We Must Be Dreaming closely followed three Brazilians for three years – before, during and after the 2014 World Cup – to see what impact the sporting events had on the lives of ordinary citizens.

Over the past three years, David Joris Dhert and Gregg Young filmed in every corner of Rio de Janeiro, searching for the answer to a simple question. How will the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games change the lives of the inhabitants?

Three stories, three years in search of fair play, dreams and personal victories.

Supported
€4,000 allocated on 11/10/2012
ID:
FPD/2012/971
Grant:
Pascal Decroos Fund

Themes

Publication

DOCUMENTARY

  • We Must Be Dreaming, Ancestral land, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 25/03/17.
  • We Must Be Dreaming, Sphinx cinema, Ghent - Belgium, 21/04/17.
  • We Must Be Dreaming, Festival de Cine Fútbolero film tour, Bogotá-Medellin-Calí-Caracas, Venezuela/Colombia, 24/04/17.
  • We Must Be Dreaming, Cinema Nova, Brussels - Belgium, 18/05/17.
  • We Must Be Dreaming, Southend-on-Sea Film Festival, UK, 08/05/17.
  • We Must Be Dreaming, IVSA 2017 International Visual Sociology Conference, Montréal, Canada, 19/06/17.
  • We Must Be Dreaming, Native Spirit Film Festival, London, UK, 12/10/17.
  • We Must Be Dreaming, Afghanistan International Human Rights Film Festival (Semi-finalist), Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • We Must Be Dreaming, Athens International Ethnographic Film Festival (Opening Film), 22/11/17.
  • We Must Be Dreaming, Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, Washington DC, US, 29/11/17.
  • We Must Be Dreaming, Mediterranean Film Festival, Siracusa, Italy, 31/11/17.
  • We Must Be Dreaming, Antropofest, Prague, Czech Republic, 27/01/18.
  • We Must Be Dreaming, Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Québec, Montréal, Canada, 06/04/18.
  • We Must Be Dreaming, Ethnocineca International Documentary Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, 07/05/18.
  • ...

PRESS

AWARD

  • Nominatie, Social Art Award 2017

EXTRA

  • Pre-release footage used in the Discovery Channel documentary series Building The World Cup (2014, Discovery Channel, worldwide broadcast)
  • Pre-release footage used in the HBO Outpost series (2016, HBO, worldwide broadcast)
  • Pre-release footage used in the BBC film Rio 50 Degrees (2014, Julien Temple, BBC broadcast)

COUNTRY

  • Brasil
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