Film: Home Game

• Date: 16 April
• label.tijd 19:00
• Location: Filmhuis Den Haag

Lidija Zelovic has been portraying her displaced family in the Netherlands since 1993, when they had to flee their war-torn home in Sarajevo. Zelovic’s film essay exposes the duality that all migrants live with: what is ‘home’? Through her work, the filmmaker highlights disruptive social and political developments in the Netherlands, which she recognizes from her fallen homeland, Yugoslavia. Drawing from her family's film archive, Zelovic alternates scenes of home—discussions about politics and football on Sundays with her parents and brother, the upbringing of her son, holidays 'home' in Bosnia—with political events in the Netherlands, such as political assassinations, scandals involving government discrimination, growing social polarization, increasing unrest in society, and the acceptance of far-right politics in the center of power. Home Game offers a sometimes funny, often confronting, and always sincere insight into Zelovic's life, which serves as a mirror for the current political climate in the Netherlands and many other countries around the world.

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