Black Diamonds at the European Union Toronto Film Festival

Directed by Spaniard Miguel Alcantud, Black Diamonds won the Audience Award at Spain’s 2013 Málaga Film Festival.

Black Diamonds

• Directed by Miguel Alcantud.
• Spain, 2013. View trailer.
• Starring Setigui Diallo, Hamidou Samaké, Carlo D’Ursi, Carlos Bardem, Guillermo Toledo, Santiago Molero, Daniel Freire, Dani Muriel, Juan Martín Gravina and Ana Risueño.

Fifteen-year-old Amadou and Moussa are two teenagers with a passion for soccer. In their free time from school and from work at the local market in Mali, the boys hone their skills and trade stories about their European idols and those Africans players who have become stars in Europe. They are spotted by a football scout, separated from their families and brought to Madrid to become stars. There they embark on a journey through Spain, Portugal and Northern Europe which will show them firsthand the shadowy world behind the beautiful game; a business which does not see in them two young kids, but two “Black Diamonds.”