Salam Sarane 2.0
17 brothers. Two faiths. One story. We filmed it in Maluku in 2024. Now we're going back — with film screenings, a futsal tournament, and Djudjaro Maluku.
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In June 2024, 17 young men from Apeldoorn travelled with Nowruz to the Moluccas for Salam Sarane. We sat with village elders, young people, and residents to talk about Pela Gandong — the centuries-old bond of brotherhood between villages that reaches across the Muslim–Christian divide. We recorded their stories, and organised a futsal tournament that brought both communities onto the same court.
That story travelled further than we imagined: 1.5 million views on TikTok, a world premiere at Felix Meritis Amsterdam, and the opening film of the Cinema Maluku festival. It stayed with people — including Djudjaro Maluku, the dance group we're now bringing along for the sequel.
But this story doesn't end there. The people who opened their doors, their stories, and their trust to us deserve to experience Salam Sarane with us, not just watch it from a distance. So at the end of 2026, we're going back — with a film tour through several villages in Ambon, and a bigger Salam Sarane 2.0 futsal tournament, with Djudjaro Maluku performing at every event.
More connection. More encounters. More Salam Sarane. Are you ready?
A community first.
A football club second.
Nowruz started in March 2021 as a handful of friends who wanted to travel, document, and tell the stories the news rarely reaches — from Kurdistan to Guernsey, long before there was a football club. SC Nowruz followed in April 2023, as one expression of that same community, not the other way around. Today the foundation runs documentary projects, academies and social initiatives across more than a dozen countries — from Bosnia to Togo, from Colombia to the Moluccas — with the football club as the beating heart that keeps the community together.