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Sidelines

BFI Doc Society Fund

Director/Producer

Erin Sayder

Director/Producer

Rita Baghdadi

Executive Producer

Camilla Hall

Co-Producer

Rhodri Lowis

 

On the outskirts of Paris, a team of young, Muslim women fight for their right to play football in their hijabs. As “Les Hijabeuses vs. France” becomes a landmark case at the European Court of Human Rights, the collective must decide what sacrifices they are willing to make, in a fight that becomes so much bigger than football.

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