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The Home Game

Directed by Logi Sigursveinsson, Smari Gunn

2023

Iceland

79 minutes

All Ages

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An Audience Award winner around the world, this feel-good doc is Iceland’s answer to Welcome to Wrexham. One plucky Icelander is determined to stage a soccer match in his tiny fishing village by an active volcano.

The fishing village of Hellissandur on Iceland’s Snæfellsnes Peninsula has a population of just 369. In the 1990s, coach Vidar decided to build a regulation soccer pitch on the edge of an old lava flow, so a local team could compete in Iceland’s FA Cup. Sadly, despite building the pitch, the dream game never materialised. So he’s taken up golf. Now his son has picked up the challenge, tackling middle-age spread, bureaucracy and frozen pitches as he rallies the community. This Ken Loach meets Field of Dreams underdog yarn is utterly charming, full of humour and bulldog tenacity.

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Hellissandur’s lovely pitch – this striking rectangle of green amidst an otherwise barren, frozen tundra – is a potent symbol of the community’s resilience as they prepare for this match, knowing the odds are against them

Tim Grierson, Screen International

The narrative in this documentary is incredible for a true story and it reaches heights that traditional underdog fiction films don’t always reach. The Home Game manages to evoke tremendous excitement as well as it manages to be ridiculously funny

Kolbeinn Rastrick, Rás 1 Radio Iceland

Special Guest

Logi Sigursveinsson

Director

Logi Sigursveinsson is a filmmaker, cinematographer, editor, and VFX artist based in Kópavogur. Working across features, documentaries, and music videos, he is a graduate of Icelandic Film School, where he studied screenwriting and directing. Sigursveinsson’s graduation film Bjarnarblú won the Best Film Award at Northern Wave Film Festival in Iceland.

Tickets

Sat 8 Jun

4:15pm

Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 9

Past Event Cancel

Sun 9 Jun

4pm

Palace Norton Street - Cinema 3

Past Event Cancel

Program Strand: International Documentaries
Original Title: Heimaleikurinn
Year: 2023
Classification: All Ages
Country: Iceland
Language: In Icelandic and English with English subtitles
Director: Logi Sigursveinsson, Smari Gunn
Producer: Stephanie Thorpe, Heather Millard, Elfar Adalsteins, Freyja Kristinsdóttir
Screenwriter: Stephanie Thorpe, Smari Gunn
Cinematographer: Logi Sigursveinsson
Editor: Logi Sigursveinsson, Smari Gunn
Premiere: Australian Premiere
Genre: Documentary, Sport, Festival Award Winners, Scandinavia
Company Credits: Sales Agent: MetFilm Sales