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2023 Icelandic documentary film by Smari Gunn and Logi Sigursveinsson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Home Game (Icelandic: Heimaleikurinn) is an Icelandic sports documentary directed by Smari Gunn and Logi Sigursveinsson.[1]
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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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Country | Iceland |
Language | Icelandic |
The film premiered at Skjaldborg Film Festival on 30 May 2023.
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.[2][3]
In May 2023, the film won the Einarinn Audience Award at the Skjaldborg documentary film festival in Iceland.[4] In September 2023, it won the City of Malmö's Audience Award at the Nordisk Panorama Film Festival.[5]
In March 2024, it won the Audience award at the Glasgow Film Festival.[6][7]
The Home Game was named Documentary of the Year in Iceland by the readers of Klapptré.[8]
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