Official
Selection at The Berlin Film Festival 2006, Nominated for TEDDY Award
at Berlin 2006, The Toronto International Film Festival 2005, New
Directors New Films MoMA New York 2006, Outfest Los Angeles 2006,
WINNER Best of The Fest London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2006,
WINNER Best of The Fest San Francisco Film Festival 2006, WINNER Best
of The Fest Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festibal, screened at over a 100
other festivals around the world.
Eleven Men Out (2005)
Ottar Thor is a champion soccer
star, handsome and arrogant, who after winning a game casually tells a
journalist he's gay. Imagine the surprise to his ex-wife, a former Miss
Iceland, his teenage son, already sullen and troubled, and his father,
Thor's macho coach.
A breezy and feisty dramtic
comedy directed by Robert I.Douglas, this is a story about a man who,
much to the chagrin of his family, exchanges one sort of domesticity
for another. After choosing a same-sex partner, he is kicked off the
championship team where players are presumably straight. But once a
player, always a player, and Ottar is offered a spot on a team in a
basement soccer league that gay sportsmen from all over Iceland soon
insist on joining. The ensemble cast is pitch perfect, as is the tone
in this lively account of the surprising accommodations people are
capable of making.
Released Theatrically in:
France, Germany, USA, Canada, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Portugal,
Luxemburg, Swiss, Austria, Italy, Iceland, Finland, Venezuela, Israel,
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Norway
Starring:
Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson, Lilja Nott
Sigurdur Skulason, Arnaldur Ernst, Jon Atli Jonasson,
with cameo appearance by Minus
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