Home Games
(Domashni Igri)
Year: 2018
Country:
UKRAINE, FRANCE, POLAND
Language:
Ukrainian
Run Time:
86 minutes
Alina Shilova, the focal point of the intimate and emotional documentary, HOME GAMES, has had a tough life. The 20-year-old Kiev, Ukraine native once lived on the streets after her alcoholic mother landed in jail, and, even today, stability remains elusive. However, Alina’s saving grace has always been soccer. A hard-working and tenacious athlete, she is good enough to potentially nab a spot on the Ukrainian national team. But when her mom unexpectedly passes away, Alina puts her training on hold to shoulder the burden of caring for her two young half-siblings. As her dream of playing on this elite team slips away, she remains stoic and refuses to give up on her ambitions—even when it becomes clear her family desperately needs her help, and juggling soccer and caretaking simply might not be possible. Yet HOME GAMES at heart is a portrait of perseverance and the awe-inspiring ways humans keep pushing forward. (In Russian and Ukrainian with subtitles) —A.Z.
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Alisa Kovalenko
Alisa Kovalenko is an award-winning Ukrainian director. She first studied journalism and then graduated from the Karpenko-Kary Theatre & Cinema University of Kyiv, specializing in documentary cinema. Kovalenko also studied at the Andrzej-Wajda cinema school in Warsaw. After her debut documentary, Kovalenko was caught in the turmoil of the Ukrainian revolution in 2014 and the subsequent war in Eastern Ukraine. HOME GAMES was the result of Kovalenko’s journey through the bloody events taking place in her own country where she was tormented by the tension between filming/observing and becoming a participant.
Filmography
Alisa in Warland (2016), HOME GAMES (2018)
Producers
Stephane Siohan, Maxym & Valentyn Vasyanovych, Miroslaw Dembinski
Cinematography
Stefan Serhiy Stetsenko, Alisa Kovalenko
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Olha Zhurba
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