Home Game
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.
Lidija Zelovic (1970) is the creative producer at Zelovic Film. She worked for years as an executive producer and researcher for BBC and Channel 4. Her last own documentary ‘My Own Private War’ (2015) won many international awards.
Original title Home Game
Genre Documentary
Running time 97 minutes
Format HD video
Screen Ratio 16:9
Language Dutch and Serbo-Croatian
Dutch broadcaster HUMAN
Year of release 2024
Director Lidija Zelovic
Producer Wout Conijn
Subtitles English/Dutch
Editor Uros Maksimovic, co-editor Patrick Janssens
Sound design Ranko Paukovic
Composer Jasper Boeke
Realized with support from
Netherlands Film Fonds, FilmFonds incentive, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, HUMAN, Vevam, Sound & Vision.
