Home is a British-Kosovan drama short film about refugees. The film, which stars Jack O'Connell and Holliday Grainger, was written and directed by Daniel Mulloy. The film, which was made in association with the United Nations, was released in UK cinemas on World Refugee Day 2016. It was Nominated for the European Film Academy Award and went on to win the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film.
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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 Holliday Grainger Zaki Ramadani Tahliya Lowles |
Music by | Coldplay Dizzee Rascal Alexander B?l?nescu Wiley |
Production company | Dokufest Bartle Bogle Hegarty Black Sheep Studios Somesuch |
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Running time | 20 minutes |
Country | Kosovo United Kingdom |
Language | English Arabic Macedonian |
Screenplay
Thousands of men, women and children struggle to get into Europe as a comfortable English family leave, on what appears to be a holiday.
- Jack - Jack O'Connell
- Holly - Holliday Grainger
- Tahliya - Tahliya Lowles
- Zac - Zaki Ramadani
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.'' Daniel Mulloy from Dazed interview by Trey Taylor
Home premiered at the 2016 South by Southwest. 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.”''
- 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
- Winner of the GOLDEN ARROW British Television Advertising Awards