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Home Game
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Home Game

Home Game

Lidija Zelovic
Netherlands
2024
98 min
World Premiere
International Competition
Tickets & Times
Synopsis

Lidija Zelovic has been portraying her displaced family in the Netherlands since 1993, since they fled their war-torn home in Sarajevo.

Zelovic's film essay exposes the duality that all migrants live with: what is 'home'? By doing so, the filmmaker draws attention to disruptive social and political developments in the Netherlands, which she recognizes from her native (fallen apart) Yugoslavia. Drawing from her family film archive, Zelović alternates scenes at home—discussions about politics and football on Sundays with her parents and brother, her son growing up, the holidays 'at home' in Bosnia—with political events in the Netherlands, such as political murders, scandals involving government discrimination, growing social polarization, increasing unrest in society and the acceptance of radical right-wing politics at the center of power.

Home Game offers a sometimes funny, often confrontational and always sincere look into Zelovic's life, which functions as a mirror for the current political climate in the Netherlands and many other countries around the world.

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Tickets & Times
Fri, november 15
IDFA Hit: Home Game + Talk hosted by Het Parool
18:30 – 20:34
Carré
Film fully subtitled in English

Sat, november 16
Press & Industry Screening, Passholders only
09:30 – 11:10
Pathé City 5

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

Sun, november 17
21:00 – 23:00
De Balie: Grote Zaal
Film fully subtitled in English

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

Wed, november 20
Film screening followed by a talk with the filmmaker.
17:00 – 19:14
Tuschinski 4
Film fully subtitled in English

Thu, november 21
20:15 – 21:57
Kriterion 1
Film fully subtitled in English

Sat, november 23
Part of Vriendenvoorstelling: Home Game
17:00 – 18:59
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
World Sales
    Taskovski Films
    Taskovski Films
Distribution for the Netherlands
    Cinema Delicatessen
    Cinema Delicatessen
Screening copy
    Conijn Film
    Conijn Film
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