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] and was released in cinemas across the UK.
The film received widespread acclaim. Kaleem Aftab of The Independent called it "A hypnotic tale of struggle", Matthew Whitehouse of i-D described it as "a powerful testament". Flynn Sarler of the Radio Times wrote "I feel like I have been punched in the stomach", and Cath Clarke of Time Out called the film "powerful and thought-provoking". Jasper Rees of The Telegraph described it as “a shrewd and original look at the full horror of a refugee’s plight”.
All proceeds from the film’s global screenings were donated to the United Nations #WithRefugees Coalition.
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