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Home Game

Home Game

Lidija Zelovic
Netherlands
2024
98 min
World Premiere
International Competition
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Synopsis

When Lidija Zelović fled the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina at the age of 22, she didn’t realize that she would henceforth be defined as a “refugee”. Nor that her life would then be spent shuttling between her birthplace and Amsterdam, between the past and the present, between being Lidija and being a foreigner.

Zelović’s self-portrait captures this sense of duality by drawing on her immense reservoir of journal material that covers most of her adult life in the Netherlands. She alternates scenes from her domestic life—spending time with her parents and brother who came with her, and chatting with her son—with Dutch political events such as the murder of the politician Pim Fortuyn, the childcare benefit scandal, and the PVV election victory in 2024. Across three decades we see the Netherlands transformed into a country with a radical right-wing government.

Zelović combines journal extracts, news footage, and other archive material to offer a deeply personal glimpse into her life. At the same time her observations from the perspective of an “eternal outsider” also act as a mirror to Dutch society.

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Tickets & Times
Fri, november 15
Talk hosted by Het Parool
18:30 – 20:21
Carré
Film fully subtitled in English

Sat, november 16
Press & Industry Screening, Passholders only
09:30 – 11:07
Pathé City 5

Sat, november 16
18:30 – 20:24
Ketelhuis: Zaal 1
Film fully subtitled in English

Sun, november 17
21:00 – 22:54
De Balie: Grote Zaal
Film fully subtitled in English

Mon, november 18
11:15 – 13:09
Pathé Noord 7
Film fully subtitled in English

Wed, november 20
Film screening followed by a talk with the filmmaker.
17:00 – 19:09
Tuschinski 4
Film fully subtitled in English

Sat, november 23
Part of Vriendenvoorstelling: Home Game
17:00 – 18:56
Tuschinski 1
Film fully subtitled in English
Credits
98 min
color
DCP
Spoken languages: Dutch, Serbo-Croatian
Director
    Lidija Zelovic
    Lidija Zelovic
Production
    Wout Conijn for Conijn Film
    Wout Conijn for Conijn Film
Co-production
    Lidija Zelovic for Zelovic Film
    Lidija Zelovic for Zelovic Film
Cinematography
    Lidija Zelovic,
    Sergej Goekjian,
    Maarten Kal,
    Moniek Wester Keegstra,
    Lola Mooij,
    Alexander Goekjian,
    Marinus Groothof
    Lidija Zelovic,
    Sergej Goekjian,
    Maarten Kal,
    Moniek Wester Keegstra,
    Lola Mooij,
    Alexander Goekjian,
    Marinus Groothof
Editing
    Uroš Maksimović
    Uroš Maksimović
Sound Design
    Ranko Pauković
    Ranko Pauković
Music
    Jasper Boeke
    Jasper Boeke
Screenplay
    Lidija Zelovic
    Lidija Zelovic
Involved TV Channel
    HUMAN
    HUMAN
Distribution for the Netherlands
    Cinema Delicatessen
    Cinema Delicatessen
Screening copy
    Conijn Film
    Conijn Film
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