The Toronto International Film Festival is beginning to reveal its feature slate for its 48th edition, starting off with Searchlight’s Taika Waititi soccer comedy Next Goal Wins.
The pic directed by the Oscar winner and co-written is inspired by the true story of the American Samoa soccer team, infamous for its brutal 31-0 FIFA loss in 2001.
With the World Cup Qualifiers approaching, the ragtag squad hires down-on-his-luck, maverick Dutch-American coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender) in the hope that he will turn the world’s worst soccer team around.
Next Goal Wins is based on the 2014 documentary of the same name. TIFF is a special place for Waititi. At the last pre-pandemic edition of the fest in 2019, he world premiered his Hitler satire Jojo Rabbit to a standing ovation — which isn’t common at TIFF.
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