Domashni Igri

Alina, a 20-year-old girl from Kyiv, has a chance to escape from poverty by football. She is about to join the Ukrainian national team, when life throws her a new challenge: Her mother dies, leaving two young siblings. Now, Alina must choose: football or family. „Few people know that in 1974, under the Soviet Union led by Brezhnev, the authorities banned women from playing football, claiming it was bad for their health. In Ukraine, it was not until perestroika that the first women's football club was founded in 1987. All the heroines of my childhood – these courageous girls whom I went to see playing on Sundays – had to reinvent their lives in adversity.“ (Alisa Kovalenko)