Home Game

Acclaimed filmmaker Lidija Zelovic has been portraying her displaced family in the Netherlands since 1993, when they fled war-torn Sarajevo, in her own unique style and with self-deprecating humour. Zelovic’s film essay exposes the duality that all migrants live with: what is ‘home’? She draws attention to social and political developments in the Netherlands that she recognises from her fractured homeland, Yugoslavia.

Drawing from her family’s film archive, Lidija Zelovic interweaves intimate home scenes with political events in the Netherlands. At home: Sunday discussions about politics and football with her parents and brother, her son growing up, and vacations in Bosnia. Meanwhile, she observes developments in the Netherlands that remind her of what happened in Yugoslavia: political assassinations, government discrimination scandals, growing social polarization, increasing unrest, and the normalization of far-right politics at the centre of power.

Home Game offers a sometimes humorous, often confrontational, and always sincere look into Zelovic’s life – serving as a mirror for the current political climate in the Netherlands and many other countries around the world.