Home Game + Q&A director
After the screening of Home Game – a documentary in which Lidija Zelovic portrays her life and family in the Netherlands starting in 1993, when they had to flee their war-torn home in Sarajevo – Branko Popovic, artistic director of Fashionclash, will interview the director (language: Dutch).
Home Game
Lidija Zelović fled with her family from Sarajevo to the Netherlands in 1993. In this funny, but also confrontational film essay, she examines recent social developments in the Netherlands that she recognises from her native country.
She was 22 when she fled the war in former Yugoslavia. For a week, was the idea, until it was safe again. Things turned out differently. More or less by chance, Zelović ended up in the Netherlands. Since then, she has been filming her displaced family. In this way, she not only recorded her family history, but also gradually created a portrait of the rapidly changing Dutch society.
Drawing from her film archive, Zelović alternates scenes at home – discussions about politics and football with her parents and brother, her son growing up – with events in the Netherlands, such as political assassinations, scandals surrounding government discrimination, growing polarisation and the acceptance of radical right-wing politics in the centre of power.
Home Game holds up a mirror to Dutch viewers and warns about the violent consequences of societal polarisation. Zelović: ‘What is going on in the Netherlands now is what we saw happening earlier in Yugoslavia. No shot has been fired yet, but as my grandmother says in the film: When the first shot is fired, you realise that the war started a long time ago.’