Corriere dello Sport presents: Marcelo Salas

Late Life: The Chien-Ming Wang Story

2018

The first and only Taiwanese player for the New York Yankees, Chien-Ming Wang held many titles: American League Wins Leader, World Series Champion, Olympian, Time 100 Most Influential, and The Pride of Taiwan. He had it all - until a 2008 injury forever altered the course of his career. Late Life: The Chien-Ming Wang Story - named after the late sinking action on his signature pitch - follows the rise and fall of the international icon as he fights his way back into the Major Leagues through endless rehab programs and lengthy stints away from home, carrying the weight of the world on his battered shoulder. A poignant and intimate account of Wang’s steadfast quest, Late Life tells the story of a man who is unwilling to give up and unable to let go.

Zlatý muž z Ria

2016

Let’s Play Darts

2004

Fortunately, darts have enjoyed steadily growing popularity in recent years. Ever since Raymond van Barneveld won the Embassy World Championship for the first time in 1998, darts has been an integral part of the Netherlands. In the following years he managed to conquer many more tournament victories and make himself one of the greats in the darts world.

Postcard (Or, from afar, you are a mirage)

2024

"The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand". This line, taken from a poem by Margaret Atwood, lights the path traced in "Postcard". As the years go by, landscapes transform, take on new meanings, and hold onto joys that will never be regained. The sea and the beach, once stages of happy summers, romances, and encounters, will turn into concentration camps or centers of detention and torture. This occurs across different times and places. In this piece, I embark on a journey through some of my works that explore the relationship between testimony, spaces, and time, engaging in dialogue with the beautiful film directed by Alejandro Segovia in 1972.

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations

1938

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love letter to the human body and spirit, culminating with the marathon, where Jesse Owens became the first track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympics.

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

1938

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave the main stadium and venture into the many halls and fields deployed for such sports as fencing, polo, cycling, and the modern pentathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris.

Football's Passion

2014

Antonio is 8 years old and is a Santos supporter. He dreams of going to the stadium to watch their team play. The film accompanies Antonio in his memorable first trip to a football stadium.

The Race to Dope

2016

Russia is about to be banned from participating in the next Olympics. Six other countries are on the watch list. Not a week goes by without a new doping scandal in the world of sports. But how does the doping system really work? Who designs the programmes and who supplies the substances? Filmed in 11 countries, this multi-sports investigation explores the implications of widespread doping.

Kids Cup

2021

Kids Cup is a character driven coming-of-age family film from the world´s largest sports tournament for kids. We dive into a teenage universe and follow 13-14 year olds from different parts of the world, competing at the football tournament, Norway Cup, in Oslo.

Football Royal

1955

Documentary short about an anual football game being helf in Florence, Tuscany in Italy dating back to medieval times.

1975: Year of Turns

2024

The 1975 Metropolitan Championship was, for River, more than the conquest of a title; it marked the end of an agony that required the efforts of historical figures of the club. In the midst of a political and economic crisis, the film documents the tensions and challenges that had to be overcome in order to achieve the yearned-for lap of honor.

Tickled

2016

Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.

Managing England: The Impossible Job

2018

The trials, tribulations and perpetual disappointments which have beset the managers of the England men's national football team since the country's solitary World Cup win in 1966.

Dansk sport i Smaaglimt

1944

Pumas: Legends of the Ice Mountains

2021

Travel to the ice mountains of Chile to discover the secrets of the puma (aka panther, mountain lion and cougar) the area's largest predator. Discover how this elusive cat survives and follow the dramatic fate of a puma and her cubs.