The assistant trainer of a professional league side, Marco, is given community service in the form of coaching a very special basketball team of people with intellectual disability. Surprisingly even for Marco himself, he’ll be the one to learn a real lesson from the adventure alongside a team where the desire to live and placing importance on the things that matter is what really counts.
Javier Fesser has directed the feature films El milagro de P. Tinto (The Miracle of P. Tinto, 1998), La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón (Mortadelo & Filemón. The Big Adventure, 2003) and Camino (2008), which competed at the San Sebastian Festival and garnered six Goyas, including Best Film and Best Director. Mortadelo y Filemón contra Jimmy el Cachondo (Mortadelo & Filemon. Mission Implausible, 2014), his first animated film, received the Goyas for Best Animated Film and Best Adapted Screenplay. He is also the author of short films including El secdleto de la tlompeta (1995), Aquel ritmillo (1995) and Binta y la gran idea (Binta and the Great Idea, 2004), nominated for the Best Short Film Academy Award and screened that year in Zabaltegi Specials. Campeones is the 3 film pre-selected to represent Spain at the Oscars.