
NOSSA CHAPE tracks the rebuilding of the Chapecoense football club in Brazil after an airplane carrying the team crashed on November 28th, 2016, leaving all but three of the players dead. With exclusive access to the new team, families of the deceased, and three surviving players, this documentary shows a team and a city divided about how to handle tragedy - should they focus on keeping the memory of the dead alive or moving on with their own lives? As the team flies the same... (Full plot summary below)
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NOSSA CHAPE tracks the rebuilding of the Chapecoense football club in Brazil after an airplane carrying the team crashed on November 28th, 2016, leaving all but three of the players dead. With exclusive access to the new team, families of the deceased, and three surviving players, this documentary shows a team and a city divided about how to handle tragedy - should they focus on keeping the memory of the dead alive or moving on with their own lives? As the team flies the same fated route to play the final championship game that last year's team would have played, they must unite around a common identity.
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| San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonThe film is an excellent reminder of how important soccer is globally. It’s more than a sport. |
| Film ThreatBobby LePireNossa Chape has an urgency and poignancy that several narrative dramas only wish they could achieve. |
| Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallAn extraordinary sports documentary and a compelling human-interest story, this documentary follows the rising Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense after the November 2016 plane crash that killed 19 players and the entire staff. |
| Film Journal InternationalAndré HerefordSibling filmmakers Jeff and Michael Zimbalist’s riveting Nossa Chape (Our Team) reveals at first a team and a town that have been utterly destroyed by the unimaginable. Then, with the tension of a well-plotted sports drama, the documentary tracks the team’s rise from the ashes of grief back to something like normal. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreIt’s a credit to the makers of the soccer documentary Nossa Chape that they’d still have a decent film, even without the tragedy that underscores the one they made. |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenThe film probes that tricky-to-reconcile bridge between honoring the fallen and moving forward. |
| The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenNossa Chape is a testament to how moving forward does not require leaving the past behind. |
| Film InquiryLee JuttonNossa Chape is a beautiful elegy to the departed and an ode to the strength of those who survived. |
| Cinemalogue.comTodd JorgensonThe poignancy in this documentary comes from seeing the faces and hearing the voices of those affected by a tragedy that made worldwide headlines. |
| indieWireSteve GreeneBy focusing on what binds those on the pitch and those in the bleachers, Nossa Chape doesn’t just wonder if some things are “bigger than the game” — it proves it. |