Lidija Zelovic’s ‘Home Game’ Acquired by Taskovski Films Ahead of IDFA World Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Taskovski Films Sales has picked up “Home Game,” directed by Lidija Zelovic, which will have its world premiere on Friday in the International Competition section of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.

Zelovic has been filming her family in the Netherlands since 1993, when they fled their war-torn home in Sarajevo. Her film exposes the duality that all migrants live with: What is “home”?

The place where they live or the place they came from? By doing so, the filmmaker draws attention to growing divisions in the Netherlands, which she recognizes from her native Yugoslavia.

Drawing from her family film archive, Zelović alternates scenes at home — discussions about politics and soccer on Sundays with her parents and brother, her son growing up, and 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 Zelovic’s life, which functions as a mirror for the current political climate in the Netherlands and many other countries around the world.