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The film tells the story of four Honduran girls who couldn't be more different.
Adelante Muchachas! accompanies the four girls in their different areas of life. They take us into their homes and tell us stories that move them. They show us their schools or the university and the few places where they can safely spend their free time with their friends. Football plays a central role for all of them.
Women's and girls' football in association leagues in Honduras is completely new territory, and the coaches and clubs experience this every day. The obstacles are high, support is hardly available. There are no changing rooms or toilets at most of the pitches. And then there's always this flirting. Somewhere there's always a stupid comment from the numerous macho men.
Seydi and Wendy live in poor neighborhoods that wind their way up the hills on stony, dry ground around the city. It is one of those districts where the majority of young people, due to a lack of work and prospects, spend their far too much free time in youth gangs and where daily violence has long since buried any scruples. Both play football in the Compartir team, a street children aid project.
The two girls Cristel and Kenia play for Motagua Femenino. Cristel comes from a middle-class family. Both parents have jobs. She attended a private, strict Catholic nuns' school and is now studying at the renowned private technical university. Then there is Kenia, the daughter of a building materials dealer, who is waiting for a scholarship in the USA after graduating from one of the exclusive bilingual private schools.
DVD - 90 Minutes.
2004
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