The Other Final

It's 2002. With the World Cup being played in Japan, another match is being played between the two lowest ranked teams Bhutan and Montserrat.

I saw this documentary last week and given that the World Cup Final has just been contested, the timing was entirely apt. This film details the build up to an unusual football match played on the 30th of June 2002, the day of the World Cup Final.

I saw this film on a late night when I should have gone to bed. I'm certainly glad I didn't because this tale of two countries is fantastic.

For me this was one of the best movies shown on the Locarno Filmfestival. It's a movie about the 2 lowest ranking football teams in the World (Buthan and Monserrat) in the offical FIFA ranking.

Given that this film combined travel and football, I suppose there was only the slightest of chances that I wouldn't like it. As it was, I loved every minute of it.

The movie increased my GNH (Gross National Happiness) by several orders of magnitude. Documentary of a match organized between 202 seeded Bhutan and 203 seeded Montserrat (2002 FIFA rankings) by a Dutch footballer and filmmaker, the movie shows us what sports can and should be.

Possible spoilers:I saw this movie on the Buddhist channel (yes in Holland every group has it's own channel)It is called "The Other Final" cause it is played on the same day that the World Cup final was played in Japan between Brazil and Germany,but after watching this documentary: Who Cares about that match!?!The documentary,shot by Dutch film makers because my nation screwed up during qualifications and didn't compete in the World Cup finals of 2002 but in the end this was even better cause else this film probably would have never been made.

Yesterday I saw "The Other Final". It tells the story of the 2002 Football Game between Bhutan and Montserrat.

Kramer is part of the Dutch design office 'Kessels & Kramer', who, amongst other things, did campaigns for Diesel and the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel. At this bureau there were a few socker enthousiasts.