The redpepper magazine highlighted the documentary "Workers' Cup", which deals with the tragic situation of Asian and African workers who build sports facilities where Qatar will host the 2022 World Cup. The film takes place in Qatar's labor camps where workers compete in a private football tournament Their own.
The film, directed by Adam Sobel, is 92 minutes long. According to the film's website, these workers work for about 12 hours a day, seven days a week, without a single day's leave. They live in isolated camps, all for low salaries. The film they met a group of workers told them that life inside the camps resembles a prison.
According to the British magazine, the film closely follows the story of a group of migrant workers from Ghana, India, Kenya and Nepal, at one of the many labor camps in Qatar, and participate strongly in the "workers' cup" sponsored by their company, and the only day between going to work and then playing football The magazine cited the reports of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, which documented conditions threatening the lives of workers in the camps.
The magazine says that the film "Workers 'Cup" explores workers' issues through their own eyes, pointing out that some of them were deceived by recruitment agents, one of them from an African country paid £ 1,200 for a professional football player in Qatar, That he will be a factor in the construction of stadiums.
According to the online film database imdb, the film deals with encounters with workers, dreams, frustrations and their desire to return home, and focuses on the exploitation of workers in the construction of football stadiums of the World Cup in a country plagued by scandals and corruption. The film reveals that these workers are working under harsh conditions, Both in terms of conditions of work and food or the racist rules imposed on them, where they live as "slaves of the modern era," and earn low salaries and work without permits.
In an earlier article in the British newspaper The Guardian, writer Charlie Phillips gave a review of the film "The Workers' Cup", in which he said that the film shocked the audience with the stories of workers and, apart from being a rare documentary about Qatar, has another added advantage of " .
Workers in Qatar face potential injury or death in building a football infrastructure from scratch. The information from Qatar may be limited and confusing, and independent journalists or filmmakers may be less likely to report on the situation.
But the filmmaker used the tournament in which the workers participated as an excuse to produce an unexpectedly candid film about the real life of workers who are real slaves and are unable to leave their camps. Or country, and many of their testimonies are appalling.
The writer also addressed the apparent anger at the heart of the film, which emerged from the camera tour of the Doha Towers and the quiet surreal scenes that show the gloom of its shopping malls, and although there are moments of real joy and freedom during the football players' play, everything outside the games is Is a lost dream and a stumbling future, until the film ends with a tragic scene where two characters try to prolong their football life, but of course not.
• Workers work 12 hours a day without leave and for low salaries, and live in isolated camps.
• 92 minutes reveal the harsh and serious conditions facing construction workers in the World Cup stadiums in Qatar.