Maradona

Arriving to Oslo Pix straight from the Cannes Film Festival is Maradona – the new documentary from Asif Kapadia, the man behind the Academy Award-winning film Amy (2015). Kapadia’s new film tells the story of the world’s biggest football genius, and of the perhaps most dysfunctional city in all of Europe.

On the 5^th of July 1984, Diego Maradona arrived in Naples, greeted by 75.000 football fans. He would stay there for 7 years – in many ways, a seemingly never ending triumph, but the meeting with Naples also became the beginning of a years long personal nightmare for Maradona.

Asif Kapadia (b. 1972) is a British filmmaker and producer, known for his visually striking documentaries. The most well-known deal with extremely talented and troubled individuals, such as race car driver Ayrton Senna and artist Amy Winehouse.