| Home | |
| Director: | Daniel Mulloy |
| Producer: | Afolabi Kuti Shpat Deda Scott O'Donnell Tim Nash Chris Watling |
| Starring: | Jack O'Connell Holliday Grainger Zaki Ramadani Tahliya Lowles |
| Music: | Coldplay Dizzee Rascal Alexander Bălănescu Wiley |
| Studio: | Bartle Bogle Hegarty Black Sheep Studios Dokufest Somesuch |
| Runtime: | 20 minutes |
| Country: | Kosovo United Kingdom |
| Language: | English Arabic Macedonian |
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.[1] It was Nominated for the European Film Academy Award[2] and went on to win the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film.[3]
Thousands of men, women and children struggle to get into Europe as a comfortable English family leave, on what appears to be a holiday.
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
Home premiered at the 2016 South by Southwest.[5] All proceeds from the film’s global screenings went to the United Nations #WithRefugees Coalition.