HOME GAME
Lidija Zelovic | Netherlands 2024 | 98 min. | Dutch, Serbo-Croatian with engl. subtitles
THURSDAY, 08.05. | 8 pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
Austrian premiere
SATURDAY, 10.05. | 3 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
In presence of Lidija Zelovic
The home videos of the Zelovic family make tangible the effects of the war in Yugoslavia and how the disintegration of society impacted everyday life. To this day, Lidija Zelovic uses her camera to document the family’s experiences as war refugees in the Netherlands and her son’s upbringing in his new homeland. The rising tide of right-wing populism and racist tensions once again lead to a division in society and deprive her and her family of a sense of belonging.
The family portrait HOME GAME reveals how the mistakes of history are repeating themselves and challenges us to think through the meaning of home in times of increasing division. With striking clarity, Zelovic makes a plea for cohesion in a fragmented world.
Director: Lidija Zelovic
Camera: Lidija Zelovic, Sergej Goekjian, Maarten Kal, Moniek Wester Keegstra, Lola Mooij, Alexander Goekjian, Marinus Groothof
Editing: Uros Maksimovic
Sound: Ranko Paukovic
Production: Wout Conijn, Lidija Zelovic
SREENINGS & AWARDS
DFA 2024 International Competition
Luxembourg City Film Festival – Youth Jury Award
Thessaloniki Documentary FF
ZagrebDox
Movies That Matter – Dutch Focus Award
BIOGRAPHY
Lidija was born 1970 in Yugoslavia. She studied Yugoslav literature and Serbo-Croatian language at the University of Sarajevo and had worked on Bosnian Television starting at age 19. Lidija moved to the Netherlands and has been living there ever since 1993, which is a year after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina broke out. She graduated with a Masters of Arts degree from the Film & Television Science Department at the University of Amsterdam. Starting in 1997, Lidija has worked as a researcher and subsequently as a director, script writer, and producer at various television channels, including several Dutch television broadcasters (IKON mostly), in the United Kingdom for Channel 4 and BBC, as well as at the German/French ARTE channel.
