The Home Game

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

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.

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

In March 2024, it won the Audience award at the Glasgow Film Festival.

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