The Home Game

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The Home Game
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Icelandic Heimaleikurinn
Directed by
  • Smari Gunn
  • Logi Sigursveinsson
Written by
  • Smari Gunn
  • Stephanie Thorpe
Produced by
Starring
  • Freydís Bjarnadóttir
  • Viðar Gylfason
  • Kári Viðarsson
CinematographyLogi Sigursveinsson
Edited by
  • Smari Gunn
  • Logi Sigursveinsson
Music byKristján Sturla Bjarnason
Production
companies
  • Silfurskjár
  • The Freezer
Release date
  • 30 May 2023 (2023-05-30)
Running time
79 minutes [1]
CountryIceland
LanguageIcelandic

The Home Game (Icelandic : Heimaleikurinn) is an Icelandic sports documentary directed by Smari Gunn and Logi Sigursveinsson. [2]

Contents

The film premiered at Skjaldborg Film Festival on 30 May 2023.

Premises

The film follows the journey of man's attempt to fulfill his father's dream; to gather a team of local people to play a long-awaited inaugural match on a football field that the father had built in the small fishing village of Hellissandur 25 years before. [3] [4]

Accolades

In May 2023, the film won the Einarinn Audience Award at the Skjaldborg documentary film festival in Iceland. [5] In September 2023, it won the City of Malmö's Audience Award at the Nordisk Panorama Film Festival. [6]

In March 2024, it won the Audience award at the Glasgow Film Festival. [7] [8]

The Home Game was named Documentary of the Year in Iceland by the readers of Klapptré. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "The Home Game (12)". British Board of Film Classification . 20 October 2025. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
  2. ↑ Júlía Margrét Einarsdóttir (15 September 2023). "Við eiginlega fullkomnum hvor annan". RÚV (in Icelandic). Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  3. ↑ "Ungverjar hrifust af Heimaleiknum". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 7 February 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  4. ↑ Diana Lodderhose (12 March 2024). "Directors Of Glasgow Film Fest Winner 'The Home Game' Discuss Crafting A Feel-Good Doc About Icelandic Soccer Underdogs". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  5. ↑ Anna María Björnsdóttir (30 May 2023). "Heimaleikurinn hlýtur áhorfendaverðlaun Skjaldborgar 2023". RÚV (in Icelandic). Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  6. ↑ "Heimaleikurinn verðlaunuð í Svíþjóð". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 28 September 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  7. ↑ Oddur Ævar Gunnarsson (12 March 2024). "Heimaleikurinn með enn önnur verðlaunin í Glasgow". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  8. ↑ "Icelandic football film The Home Game scoops prestigious Audience Award on closing night of Glasgow Film Festival". Screen Scotland . 11 March 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  9. ↑ "Þetta fannst gagnrýnendum besta íslenska bíóið á árinu". Klapptré (in Icelandic). 31 December 2023.


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