Marta Díaz de Lope Díaz’s ‘Another League’ chronicles the defiant birth of women’s soccer in the waning years of Francisco Franco’s arcane dictatorship in early 1970s Spain – today the reigning world champions after winning the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2023.
Sold internationally by Filmax, “Another League” premieres in competition at the Málaga Film Festival.
The fact-based film follows an ambitious sports promoter, played by Daniel Ibáñez (“Saturn Return”) and a group of young, fancy-footed girls who team up to establish a national women’s soccer league, breaking barriers in the face of massive social and political opposition to what was then largely deemed to be “unladylike behavior.”
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