Kenny Dalglish (Kenny Dalglish)

Asif Kapadia

Kenny Dalglish, a true football legend, narrates his own journey, joined by his wife Marina and closest footballing friends. Drawing from hundreds of hours of archival footage, including never-before-seen personal clips from his playing career and home life, Kapadia’s documentary reveals his remarkable story – a great player and an extraordinary, witty, and humble hero of Liverpool and the world of football. His years at Liverpool, where he was the pivotal player as well as the player-manager, were the club's most successful. Dalglish became manager during the most traumatic era in the club’s history. Widely regarded as one of the club’s and Europe’s greatest players, the film reveals how he became an icon in the city of Liverpool, for what he did off the pitch as much as on.

UK 2026, '104

DIRECTOR: Asif Kapadia

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CPH: DOX (2026)

Asif Kapadia

Grammy winning director Asif Kapadia has made his name directing visually striking films exploring outsiders. He has worked in drama and documentaries and is best known for his trilogy of narratively driven, archive constructed documentaries Senna, Amy, and Diego Maradona. Amy had its world premiere at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the BAFTA for Best Documentary, the European Film Award for Best Documentary and a Grammy for Best Music Film. Senna won BAFTAs for Best Documentary and Best Editing. Kapadia’s narrative debut, The Warrior, won the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film of the Year and the award for Debut Feature. The film was also nominated for Best Film Not in the English Language. Kapadia’s 2073, an epic science–true fiction thriller which mixes archive, nonfiction and drama, set in a dystopian near-future, premiered at Venice Film Festival. Kapadia has also directed episodes of Mindhunter for David Fincher and Netflix. He was series director and executive producer for 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything. He directed and executive-produced The Me You Can't See with Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry, a series focusing on mental health and well-being.