The Thinking Football Film Festival

The Thinking Football Film Festival is a football film festival organised by the Athletic Club Foundation with the collaboration of Sala BBK and the sponsorship of Euskaltel. Every year, between twelve and twenty films are presented at Sala BBK in Bilbao, in which human and social stories are told through football. On the whole, the Thinking Football Film Festival programme aims to help raise key issues on understanding the global social phenomenon that football has become over the last one hundred years.

The 2017 edition will be the fifth and will take place between March 13 and 28 in a format of sessions on Monday and Tuesday. Eleven feature films (ten documentaries and one fictional film) and five short films will be screened from countries such as Iceland, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Belgium, USA, Italy and Spain.

Attendance at all sessions is free until full capacity is reached and after each film there will be a short discussion about the film, with the attendance of the director or one of its main characters. The audience can rate the films and at the end of the festival the Thinking Football Film Festival Audience Award will be announced.