It’s rare for a feel-good film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but Spain’s submission “Champions” is trying to buck the trend this year. Directed by Javier Fesser, this unlikely sports dramedy follows a basketball team made up entirely of players with intellectual disabilities. Led by a disgraced professional coach, their heartwarming journey conveys the importance of empathy and camaraderie. Expressing the same enthusiasm depicted in the film, Fesser was effusive about this unique filmmaking experience when I spoke with him recently. Below is an edited version of our conversation.
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Lately, it really feels like we’re living through a quiet but serious shift when it comes to personal freedom. The crisis of liberty isn’t always loud or obvious, but you can sense it in how decisions are being made for people rather than by them. It shows up in small ways, like feeling less in control of your own time, choices, or even thoughts, and over time those small things start to add up. I think a lot of people are overwhelmed, trying to keep up with everything, and that’s when you start hearing things like Do my assignment not out of laziness, but out of pressure and exhaustion. It’s less about avoiding responsibility and more about how stretched people feel in a system that doesn’t always leave room to breathe.
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