THE brothers Iñaki and Nico Williams They walked the red carpet of the San Sebastian Festival with a documentary that tells their life, shows their progression as footballers, but also their family side and the vulnerability of someone who is supposed to do everything right when he touches the ball.
“Los Williams” premieres in the Zinemira section of the San Sebastian competition and its director, Raul de la Fuente from Pamplonafollowed the footballers of the Athletic Bilbao of the world cup Tastethat Iñaki contested with the Ghana National Team and Nico with the Spanishuntil European Cupwho won ‘the Red’.
The film is crossed from beginning to end by another story, that of a Ghanaian boy fishing in Lake Volta and he watches famous footballers in his dream of escaping to Europe in search of a better future.
“This boy is the alter ego of Iñaki, who teaches What would have happened to the Williams if their parents had not made it here? from Ghana, explains de la Fuente, who considers it “painful and not good” that there are children in Africa with an aspiration that the vast majority will not be able to achieve.
“They want come to Europeit is a reality, but This is not something the film is trying to promote.The Williams case is an exception and is not an example of anything“, he emphasizes.
De la Fuente, author of the award-winning animated film “One More Day Alive”, which recreates journalist Ryszard Kapuściński’s stay in Angola on the eve of independence from Portugal, feels a great attraction to Africa and its people, and in This new work, produced by Fremantle and Kanaki Films, wanted to “uniting identities“.
That of two boys born in Bilbao (Iñaki) and Pamplona (Nico) of African parents“that They come from very low and feel pride in being black“.
The director explains that Iñaki, who has just turned thirty and is eight years older than his brother, is considered an adult “with very clear things”“. “In Nico you can see more character transformation“, he specifies.
“Nico is his brother’s masterpiece. A good person, with values, who became a very good footballer, whom he loves accompany one day to recover the golden ball“He’s very proud of himself,” De la Fuente says of Iñaki Williams, who took care of the little boy when his father had to go to work in England and his mother had to work three jobs to support him.
To the director of this film, the two footballers showed that “they are still the same” and that Nico enjoys his return to Buztintxuri like no otherhis neighborhood in Pamplona, and takes off his shirt to play with the children there.
“But here The bravest was her mother, Maria, “She was the one who scored the best goal,” De la Fuente says of the matriarch, who crossed the desert with her husband thirty years ago, on a journey in which they risked their lives and which ended in Bilbao.
