BHFF NYC Presentation 5: Home Game + Q&A w/ director Lidija Zelović

Lidija Zelović has been portraying her displaced family in the Netherlands since 1993, ever since they fled their war-torn home in Sarajevo. Zelović's film essay exposes the duality that all migrants live with: what is 'home'? By doing so, the filmmaker draws attention to disruptive social and political developments in the Netherlands, which she recognizes from her native (fallen apart) Yugoslavia. Drawing from her family film archive, Zelović alternates scenes at home—discussions about politics and football on Sundays with her parents and brother, her son growing up, the holidays 'at home' in Bosnia—with political events in the Netherlands, such as political murders, scandals involving government discrimination, growing social polarization, increasing unrest in society, and the acceptance of radical right-wing politics at the center of power. Home Game offers a sometimes funny, often confrontational and always sincere look into Zelović's life, which functions as a mirror for the current political climate in the Netherlands and many other countries around the world.

Followed by a Q&A with director Lidija Zelović.
Lidija Zelović portretiše svoju raseljenu porodicu u Holandiji još od 1993. godine, kada su izbjegli iz ratom razorenog Sarajeva. Njen filmski esej razotkriva rastrganosts kojom žive svi migranti: šta je zapravo 'dom'? Čineći to, autorica skreće pažnju na uznemirujuće društvene i političke promjene u Holandiji, koje prepoznaje iz svoje rodne (raspadnute) Jugoslavije. Crpeći materijal iz porodične filmske arhive, Zelović smjenjuje scene iz kuće — nedjeljne rasprave o politici i fudbalu s roditeljima i bratom, odrastanje njenog sina, praznike „kod kuće“ u Bosni — s političkim dešavanjima u Holandiji, kao što su politička ubistva, skandali oko vladine diskriminacije, rastuća društvena polarizacija, sve veći nemiri u društvu i prihvatanje radikalno desničarske politike u centrima moći. Home Game nudi ponekad smiješan, često konfrontirajući i uvijek iskren uvid u život Lidije Zelović, koji služi kao ogledalo trenutne političke klime u Holandiji, ali i mnogim drugim zemljama širom svijeta.

Nakon toga slijedi Q&A sa rediteljicom Lidijom Zelović.

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