Shooting for Socrates follows a nine-year-old boy in the troubled Belfast of 1985 as he makes sense of his divided world through football and the philosophical teachings of his father, while the Northern Ireland national team prepares to face Brazil at the 1986 World Cup.
In early 1970s Spain, with Francoism still deeply rooted in society, a group of very young women decided to play football in a country that had no place for them in the sport. Along the way, they found an unexpected ally: a sports promoter who was as bold as he was visionary. Together, and against all odds, they challenged the system and laid the foundations for a struggle that would forever change the history of women’s football in Spain.
