The Independent Weekly and the Carolina RailHawks have teamed up for  a series of screenings of soccer films at various venues around the Triangle in the weeks leading up to the World Cup.

The full schedule of screenings is listed below.  Check out the TSF events calendar for meetups with TSF members.

Monday, June 7

@ The Pinhook
117 W. Main St.
Durham
8 p.m. Free.

Pelada, the critically acclaimed hit from this year’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival that tells the story of four young Americans who travel the world in search of a beautiful pickup game. Unconfirmed: Producer Rebekah Fergusson will appear on behalf of the film.

Wednesday June 9

@ Galaxy Cinema
770 Cary Towne Blvd
Cary
$5

Winning Isn’t Everything, a film from UNC communications professor Hap Kindem that examines the extraordinary success of Anson Dorrance and his Tar Heels women’s soccer program. Kindem and UNC assistant women’s soccer coach Bill Palladino will appear. (7 p.m.)

Victory—Soccer emerged in America in the 1970s. Pele came to play for the New York Cosmos (of the original North American Soccer League) n 1975, and in 1981 he joined fellow soccer superstar Franz Beckenbauer plus actors Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine and Max von Sydow in this John Huston-directed drama about a World War II prison camp and a soccer game their between Allied inmates and their Nazi captors. (8:30 p.m.)

Thursday June 10

@Lumina Theatre
620 Market St.
Southern Village, Chapel Hill.

Outdoors at dusk. Regular admission.

Bend It Like Beckham— When this youth soccer classic was released in 2003, David Beckham was at the peak of his superstardom. Alas, Becks was seriously injured earlier this season, so he’ll be on the sidelines this summer as an all-purpose ambassador for the English national team. Meanwhile, the little-known teenage star of Bend It Like Beckham, Keira Knightley, has become an A-list actress.

Beginning June 11:

Regular engagement @ local art house near you
Regular admission.
www.ifcfilms.com/films/looking-for-eric

Looking for Eric—A new comedy from acclaimed realist director Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley) about a troubled postal worker in Manchester, England who takes inspiration from Eric Cantona, a French soccer star of the 1990s who played in England for many years. Cantona himself appears in the film.

Friday June 18:

@ North Carolina Museum of Art
2110 Blue Ridge Rd
Raleigh
9 p.m. $4, members free.

The Damned United—Based on the novel by David Peace, this 2009 comedy-drama tells the fact-based tale of Brian Clough, a famous English soccer manager, and his disastrous attempt to take charge of his bitter rival, Leeds United. Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon, The Queen Underworld) stars as Clough.