SAQUON

The documentary is about the American football player Saquon Barkley. It began five years earlier as a video diary, kept while he was working his way back from a knee ligament injury. After he returned to the field the camera was not switched off and the recording carried on. What came out of it includes his unease at not holding his own career in his hands. Quiet moments inside the family are part of the film as well. The account ends with a strong season at the Eagles. At the end of that season the team won the Super Bowl, and the game fell on Barkley’s birthday. Alexander Pappas’s American film, a hundred and one minutes long, was completed in 2025.