Taika Waititi’s football comedy Next Goal Wins will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this autumn.
The Searchlight Pictures film is based on a true story and stars Michael Fassbender as a Dutch-American football coach assigned to help the struggling American Samoa national team in its quest to qualify for the 2014 Fifa World Cup.
The team at that point was best known for suffering the worst loss in international football history - a 31-0 defeat against Australia in 2001.
Waititi and co-writer Iain Morris based the film off of a 2014 British documentary of the same name, from Mike Brett and Steve Jamison, which chronicled the comeback attempt. The new film also stars Oscar Kightley, Kaimana, Will Arnett and Elisabeth Moss.