The Basketball Game

The Basketball Game

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2011

Runtime

0h 5m

Genres

Animation

User Score

60%

Original Title

The Basketball Game

Production Companies

ONF | NFB

Director

Hart Snider

Description

In 1983, nine-year-old Hart attends Jewish summer camp for the first time, while in a nearby Alberta town a social studies teacher makes headlines after it’s discovered he’s been teaching anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. In the aftermath, the teacher’s former students are invited to Hart’s camp for a picnic and a basketball game. Hart and his campmates are both curious and afraid of what awaits them on the basketball court. Told from Hart’s perspective, The Basketball Game fuses animation, documentary and personal memoir in a poignant and humorous tale of hope and tolerance in the face of fear and stereotypes.