New York magazine has five short films on their site that are playing at the Tribeca film festival. They’re all terrific, but this one is kind of, sort of, sports-related. Wrestling is a sport, right?
For anyone who enjoyed Mickey Rourke and the deserved hype surrounding The Wrestler, there’s this short, entitled Team Taliban, following a Muslim wrestler and his struggle to fit in and succeed in his culture, and in the culture of wrestling as he takes on the character of a bad guy.
This article appears in Apr 22-28, 2009.
