Home (2016 British-Kosovan film)

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

Home is a British-Kosovan drama short film about refugees. It stars Jack O'Connell and Holliday Grainger, and was written and directed by Daniel Mulloy. It was made in association with the United Nations, and was released in UK cinemas on World Refugee Day 2016.[1] It was nominated for the European Film Academy Award[2] and went on to win the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film.[3]

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.

Cast

• Jack O'Connell as Jack
• Holliday Grainger as Holly
• Tahliya Lowles as Tahliya
• Zaki Ramadani as Zac

Production

Daniel Mulloy wrote the screenplay after spending time living with refugees who were facing deportation:

"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.''[4] Daniel Mulloy from Dazed interview by Trey Taylor

Release

Home premiered at the 2016 South by Southwest.[5] All proceeds from the film’s global screenings went to the United Nations #WithRefugees Coalition.

Awards

• premiered South by Southwest 2016
• Winner 60th British Academy Film Awards Best Short Film 2017
• Winner Special Jury Prize Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
• Winner Best of Fest Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films
• Winner Port Townsend Film Festival
• Winner Reykjavik International Film Festival
• Winner St. Louis International Film Festival
• Winner Curtas Vila do Conde
• Winner of the GOLDEN LION Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity[6]
• Winner of the GOLDEN ARROW British Television Advertising Awards[7]

References

1. "Short of The Week: HOME" Short of The Week Website, JUNE 20, 2016 (Retrieved 14 April 2017)
2. "EFA: Nominees" European Film Academy Website, 18 July 2016 (Retrieved 14 April 2017)
3. "BAFTA: Winners" BAFTA Website, 10 January 2017 (Retrieved 14 April 2017)
4. "DAZED: This film shows what it’s really like to be a refugee" DAZED Website, June 2016 (Retrieved 14 April 2017)
5. "SXSW: HOME" SXSW Website Premieres, MARCH 12, 2016 (Retrieved 14 April 2017)
6. "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)
7. "BRITISH ARROWS Website: 2017 Winners"^[permanent dead link‍] BRITISH ARROWS Website, June 2017 (Retrieved 27 June 2017)

External links

• Official website
• Home at IMDb