Domashni Igri
Home Games
Die 20-jährige Alina hat durch ihr Fußballtalent eine Chance, der Armut zu entfliehen. Gerade als sie ins ukrainische Nationalteam aufgenommen werden soll, stirbt jedoch ihre Mutter und hinterlässt zwei jüngere Geschwister. Entscheidet sich Alina für Fußball oder Familie? „Kaum jemand weiß, dass in der Sowjetunion unter Breschnew 1974 Frauenfußball verboten wurde, weil er gesundheitsschädlich wäre. Erst 1987 im Zuge der Perestroika wurde in der Ukraine der erste Frauenfußballclub gegründet. All diese Heldinnen meiner Kindheit, die ich mir sonntags auf dem Fußballplatz ansehen ging, mussten ihre Existenzen im Angesicht heftiger Widerstände neu aufbauen.“ (Alisa Kovalenko)
Alina, a 20-year-old girl from Kyiv, has a chance to escape from poverty by football. She is about to join the Ukrainian national team, when life throws her a new challenge: Her mother dies, leaving two young siblings. Now, Alina must choose: football or family. „Few people know that in 1974, under the Soviet Union led by Brezhnev, the authorities banned women from playing football, claiming it was bad for their health. In Ukraine, it was not until perestroika that the first women's football club was founded in 1987. All the heroines of my childhood – these courageous girls whom I went to see playing on Sundays – had to reinvent their lives in adversity.“ (Alisa Kovalenko)
Director's Biography
Alisa Kovalenko
Alisa Kovalenko is a Ukrainian documentary director born in 1987. She studied filmmaking at the Karpenko-Kary Theatre and Cinema University of Kiev and at the Andrezj-Wajda School of Cinema in Warsaw. "Home Games" is her third documentary feature, following the very personal "Alisa in Warland" which describes her journey from Euromaidan to the war in the east.
Film Selection: Domashni Igri (Home Games, 2018, doc) - Alisa w krainie wojny (Alisa in Warland, 2015, doc) - Sister Zo (2014, doc) - Video-poetry of Maidan (2014)
Alisa Kovalenko is a Ukrainian documentary director born in 1987. She studied filmmaking at the Karpenko-Kary Theatre and Cinema University of Kiev and at the Andrezj-Wajda School of Cinema in Warsaw. "Home Games" is her third documentary feature, following the very personal "Alisa in Warland" which describes her journey from Euromaidan to the war in the east.
Film Selection: Domashni Igri (Home Games, 2018, doc) - Alisa w krainie wojny (Alisa in Warland, 2015, doc) - Sister Zo (2014, doc) - Video-poetry of Maidan (2014)
Competition Documentary 2019
Alisa Kovalenko
Ukraine / Frankreich / Polen 2018
color
86 Minuten
Russisch / Ukrainisch OmeU
Drehbuch Alisa Kovalenko
Kamera Serhiy Stefan Stetsenko, Alisa Kovalenko
Schnitt Olha Zhurba
Ton/Sounddesign Mariya Nesterenko
Musik Orianne Marsilli aka Ladylike Lily
Mit Alina Shylova, Regina Khalilova, Renat Khalilov, Nadia Karatchuk, Raisa Shylova, Roman Khalilov
Produzent*innen Stéphane Siohan, Maxym & Valentyn Vasyanovych, Iya Myslytska, Miroslav Dembinski
Produktion
East Roads Films, Studio Garmata Film, DocEdu Foundation
Weltvertrieb
Syndicado Film Sales
Österreichpremiere
Weltpremiere
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018
Weltpremiere / World PremiereSheffield Doc/Fest 2018
Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere