Champions (2018 film)
Champions () is a 2018 Spanish comedy-drama film directed by Javier Fesser. Plot. This movie is inspired by "Aderes" team in Burjassot (Valencia), a team created with people with intellectual disabilities that won twelve Spanish championships between 1999 and 2014. Marco Montes is the assistant coach of the basketball team CB Estudiantes. He is an arrogant man with bad manners, He is fired from his job after an altercation with his head coach during a game. After driving drunk into the back of a police car, Marco is ordered to either spend two years in prison or  ninety days of community service, in the form of coaching Los Amigos, a team of people with disabilities. At first, the news aren't well received by the protagonist, due to how he looks down upon disabled people in general, calling them "subnormales" (below normal), however, as time goes on, he'll realize everything he had yet to learn from these people. Release. Distributed by Universal Pictures International Spain, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 6 April 2018. Reception. Box office. The film is the highest-grossing Spanish language film of 2018 in Spain, with a box-office  taking of €19.1 million from 3.3 million admissions. Awards and nominees. It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The film won three Goya Awards, including Best Film, Best New Actor (Jesús Vidal), and Best Original Song ("Este es el momento", by Coque Malla). The film received five nominations for the 6th Platino Awards, including Best Ibero-American Film and Best Director.