The film is a documentary focused purely on Zidane during the Spanish
La Liga match played between
Real Madrid and
Villarreal on 23 April 2005 at the
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and was filmed in
real time using 17 synchronized
cameras. During the last minutes of the match, Zidane was sent off as a result of a brawl. The film bears a similarity to
Football As Never Before (aka "Fußball wie noch nie"), a documentary made in 1970 by acclaimed German filmmaker Hellmuth Costard about
Manchester United footballer
George Best. In the
experimental film Costard used eight
16mm film cameras to follow Best, in real time, for the course of an entire game against
Coventry City. These films also inspired
Spike Lee's 2009 documentary ''
Kobe Doin' Work''. The film was featured at the 2006
Edinburgh International Film Festival. {{cite web |title=Zidane, Un Portrait Du 21e Siècle |publisher=Edinburgh International Film Festival |url=http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/movies/show/zidane__a_21st_century_portrait/ |access-date=2007-02-05 ==Soundtrack==