Home Game

Lidija Zelovic has been portraying her displaced family in the Netherlands since 1993, the year they were forced to flee their war-torn home in Sarajevo. In her film essay, she exposes the inner conflict that all migrants struggle with: what does 'home' really mean? While exploring this question, she also draws attention to disruptive social and political developments in the Netherlands, which she recognizes from her disintegrated native Yugoslavia.

Drawing from her family archive, Zelovic weaves intimate scenes from her daily life – conversations about politics and football with her parents and brother on Sundays, her son growing up, holidays ‘home’ in Bosnia – with major political events in the Netherlands. She shows how political assassinations, government discrimination, increasing polarisation and the normalisation of radical right-wing politics are transforming the country.

Home Game offers a sometimes funny, often confrontational, but always sincere look into Zelovic's life. Her personal story functions as a mirror for the current political climate in the Netherlands - and in many other countries worldwide.