Home (2016 British film)

Home (2016 film)
Directed by Daniel Mulloy
Produced by Afolabi Kuti
Shpat Deda
Scott O'Donnell
Tim Nash
Chris Watling
Written by Daniel Mulloy
Starring Jack O'Connell (actor)
Holliday Grainger
Zaki Ramadani
Tahliya Lowles
Music by Coldplay
Dizzee Rascal
Alexander Bălănescu
Wiley (rapper)
Production
company
Dokufest
Bartle Bogle Hegarty Black Sheep Studios
Somesuch
Release date
  • 12 March 2016 (2016-03-12) (SXSW Film Festival)
Running time
 20 minutes
Country Kosovo
United Kingdom
Language English
Arabic
Macedonian

Home is a British-Kosovan drama short film. It stars Jack O'Connell (actor) and Holliday Grainger written and directed by Daniel Mulloy. Home was Nominated for the European Film Academy Award [1] and went on to win the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film.[2]

Plot

Thousands of men, women and children struggle to get into Europe as a comfortable English family leave, on what appears to be a holiday.[3]

Release

The film was made in association with the United Nations and released in UK cinemas on World Refugee Day 2016.[4]

Before the Home premiere actress and Home Executive Producer Arta Dobroshi made clear her wish for the future:

"The biggest privilege of the career she now enjoys, she says, is the opportunity it gives her to tell the refugees’ story and make it meaningful and relevant. “My greatest hope now,” she says, “is that in maybe 10 or 20 years, or even 40, our children or grandchildren will say, can you imagine? There were actually times in the past when the people who lived in freedom wouldn’t help the refugees. There really were those times.”'' [5] excerpt from The Guardian interview with Arta Dobroshi by Joanna Moorhead

Story

Time the director spent living with refugees, who were being deported, was key to Home's creation:

"We began chatting and I learned that their clothes had been donated to them by nuns and their son had just been operated on after falling ill sleeping on the floor of a Hungarian jail cell. We were in Kosovo and they were being returned to a nightmare that they had risked their lives to escape. I left them feeling sickened and disturbed. I then returned to the UK, billboards were up on streets that were overtly racist and our politicians were dehumanising those fleeing war zones, referring to them as ‘swarms’ and living in ‘jungles’. The film grew out of the fact that wanted to respond.'' [6] Daniel Mulloy from Dazed interview by Trey Taylor

Reception

Home premiered at the 2016 South by Southwest[7] and went on to win the British Academy Film Awards.

Accolades (Film)

Accolades (Creative/Commercial)

References

  1. ↑ "EFA: Nominees" European Film Academy Website, 18 July 2016 (Retrieved 14 April 2017)
  2. ↑ "BAFTA: Winners" BAFTA Website, 10 January 2017 (Retrieved 14 April 2017)
  3. ↑ "IMDB: Home" IMDB Website, March 2016 (Retrieved 14 April 2017)
  4. ↑ "Short of The Week: HOME" Short of The Week Website, JUNE 20, 2016 (Retrieved 14 April 2017)
  5. ↑ "The Guardian: I was a refugee – nobody wants to leave their home" The Guardian Website, 18th June 2016 (Retrieved 14 April 2017)
  6. ↑ "DAZED: This film shows what it’s really like to be a refugee" DAZED Website, June 2016 (Retrieved 14 April 2017)
  7. ↑ "SXSW: HOME" SXSW Website Premieres, MARCH 12, 2016 (Retrieved 14 April 2017)
  8. ↑ "AD WEEK: Deputy ECD of BLACH SHEEP STUDIOS BBH Anthony Austin discusses the gold Lion winner" AD WEEK Website, June 2017 (Retrieved 27 June 2017)
  9. ↑ "BRITISH ARROWS Website: 2017 Winners" BRITISH ARROWS Website, June 2017 (Retrieved 27 June 2017)
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