Beyond the Lines
A documentary film by
Berni Goldblat
Beyond the Lines follows three exceptional athletes in international wheelchair tennis: Ksénia Chasteau, a young French player on the rise; Gustavo Fernández, one of Argentina’s leading champions in the sport; and Alwande Sikhosana, a South African player whose journey opens the film to a different social, cultural, and athletic reality.
Through them, the film tells a story that goes far beyond the sport itself; it reveals intense personal journeys, bodies in motion, doubts, victories, defeats, and the constant quest for a balance between performance, identity, and personal life.
Wheelchair tennis
Wheelchair tennis—under the auspices of the International Tennis Federation (ITF)—is one of the few sports in which athletes with disabilities compete on the same courts, share the same locker rooms, and use the same facilities as able-bodied players, particularly during the four Grand Slam tournaments (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, U.S. Open) .
The rules are identical to those of the tennis everyone knows, with one exception: players are allowed a second bounce, although it is optional.
Today, this sport is played on every continent, with more than 160 tournaments in some 40 countries.
Video
Some scenes from the film shot at Roland-Garros - June 2026
Partners
Beyond the Lines is a film that embodies strong values: excellence, resilience, inclusion, pushing one’s limits, elegance, and passing on knowledge.
Our goal is to support an ambitious, positive, and deeply human film that can be distributed internationally at film festivals, to sports organizations, public broadcasters, digital platforms, and movie theaters.
This project is already generating significant interest from numerous leading international institutions in the fields of sports, culture, and human rights (e.g., International Tennis Federation, UNESCO, Handicap International, etc.).
The director’s vision
Berni Goldblat, a Swiss filmmaker and director, has for many years been creating work that focuses on human journeys and realities far removed from mainstream representations.
A former player himself, he has competed in high-level international wheelchair tennis tournaments, notably at the 1992 Paralympic Games in Barcelona.
In Beyond the Lines, he approaches this sport not as a social issue, but as a cinematic landscape: a world of movement, tension, silence, rituals, and emotions.
Production
With Beyond the Lines, Bord Cadre Films continues its commitment to unique films that are open to the world and capable of combining artistic ambition, human resonance, and international reach.
Bord Cadre Films, a Swiss company based in Geneva and founded in 2004, champions demanding international auteur cinema, regularly featured at major festivals such as Cannes (Palme d’Or for Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness), Venice (Silver Lion for Amat Escalante’s La Región Salvaje and Samuel Maoz’s Foxtrot), and Berlin (Golden Bear for Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn).
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