"Home is extremely successful in shifting the balance of our sympathies and allowing us to develop a deeper sense of the characters."
Allan Hunter - Screen Daily
festivals & awards
Orizzonti, Venice International Film Festival 2016 / Best Director
synopsis
Home focuses on a group of youngsters and the adults that surround them. Both find it difficult to communicate and to understand each others closed-off world. Into this community of two struggling generations arrives 17-year-old Kevin. He starts an apprenticeship at his aunts store and goes to live with her and her family. Kevin quickly adapts to his new home and gets along with his cousin Sammy. Through Sammy’s circle of friends he gets to know John. Soon we discover John lives an unbearable situation with his mother and Kevin feels the urge to help his new friend. One evening faith intervenes and questions of betrayal, trust and loyalty start to direct their daily lives more then ever.
info
original title
Home
genre
Drama
country
Belgium
running time
106’
produced by
Prime Time - Belgium
in co-production with
Versus Production - Belgium
directed by
Fien Troch
written by
Fien Troch, Nico Leunen
sales
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