The Home Game
2023 Icelandic documentary film by Smari Gunn and Logi Sigursveinsson
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The Home Game (Icelandic: Heimaleikurinn) is an Icelandic sports documentary directed by Smari Gunn and Logi Sigursveinsson.[2]
- Smari Gunn
- Logi Sigursveinsson
- Smari Gunn
- Stephanie Thorpe
- Freyja Kristinsdóttir
- Elfar Adalsteins
- Stephanie Thorpe
- Heather Millard
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| Icelandic | Heimaleikurinn |
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| Cinematography | Logi Sigursveinsson |
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| Music by | Kristján Sturla Bjarnason |
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Running time | 79 minutes[1] |
| Country | Iceland |
| Language | Icelandic |
The film premiered at Skjaldborg Film Festival on 30 May 2023.
Premises
The film follows the journey of man's attempt to fulfill his father's dream; to gather a team of local people to play a long-awaited inaugural match on a football field that the father had built in the small fishing village of Hellissandur 25 years before.[3][4]
Accolades
In May 2023, the film won the Einarinn Audience Award at the Skjaldborg documentary film festival in Iceland.[5] In September 2023, it won the City of Malmö's Audience Award at the Nordisk Panorama Film Festival.[6]
In March 2024, it won the Audience award at the Glasgow Film Festival.[7][8]
The Home Game was named Documentary of the Year in Iceland by the readers of Klapptré.[9]
