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The Pass
Why this pick
Like Mario, it places a hidden relationship inside the intensely masculine world of elite football, with career ambition and public scrutiny tightening the emotional stakes.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2018 2h 3m CHE
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Why this pick
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Firebird
Why this pick
It shares Mario’s aching conflict between private love and an institution demanding conformity, told with restrained longing and high personal stakes.
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Floating Skyscrapers
Why this pick
This tense, unsentimental drama similarly follows a competitive young sportsman whose emerging relationship collides with family expectations and a carefully maintained public life.
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Summer of 85
Why this pick
Though not sports-focused, its sunlit romantic intensity and retrospective sense of yearning echo Mario’s blend of youthful desire, secrecy and emotional consequence.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Young Swiss soccer player Mario has devoted his entire life to fulfilling his and his fathers dream of becoming an international professional soccer star. All this changes when his club recruits a rising star from Germany Leon Saldo. Now as pressure increases, he is forced to choose between love and happiness and his dreams of success and stardom, a choice that might hunt him until the end of his life.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Max Hubacher
Mario Lüthi
Aaron Altaras
Leon Saldo