Eleven Men Out

The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover himself (with the help of the local press). He soon finds himself on the bench for most of his teams matches and decides to call it quits and join a small amateur team made up of men like himself - gay guys trying to play football in a straight world of Icelandic fishing culture machoism

Keywords

  • LGBTQIA+
  • Queer Romance
  • Sport: a taste for challenge
  • queer

Actors

  • Valdimar Örn Flygenring
  • Arnmundur Ernst Björnsson
  • Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir
  • Jón Atli Jónason
  • Helgi Björnsson
  • Erlendur Eiríksson
  • Lilja Guðrún Þorvaldsdóttir
  • Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
  • Björk Jakobsdóttir
  • Damon Younger
  • Marius Sverrisson
  • Sigurður Skúlason

Director

  • Róbert I. Douglas

Comedy

1h 25min

-12

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Iceland
2005
The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover himself (with the help of the local press). He soon finds himself on the bench for most of his teams matches and decides to call it quits and join a small amateur team made up of men like himself - gay guys trying to play football in a straight world of Icelandic fishing culture machoism

The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover himself (with the help of the local press). He soon finds himself on the bench for most of his teams matches and decides to call it quits and join a small amateur team made up of men like himself - gay guys trying to play football in a straight world of Icelandic fishing culture machoism


Cast & Crew