Does anyone know where I can watch "the home game"? I heard about it on The Sweeper podcast and it's meant to be about an Icelandic team's efforts to building a pitch in their village
It's no longer on demand on Sky Go, but it is being repeated on Rialto soon on Wednes. Nov. 6.
If you have Sky, you could subscribe to Rialto for one month ($11)
You would see some other good movies too (and have access to some of Rialto's past movies on Sky Go).
Documentary (2023)
Wed, 6 Nov, 4:05 pm Rialto Channel
A man wants to fulfil his father's failed dream: to get
their beloved village a home game on the unused
football pitch he built. 2023. Iceland. Directors: Smari
Gunn, Logi Sigursveinsson
their beloved village a home game on the unused
football pitch he built. 2023. Iceland. Directors: Smari
Gunn, Logi Sigursveinsson
MY POST ON ANOTHER FEVER FORUM:
For a great insight into Icelandic football and culture, I recommend the recent internationally popular ("Audience Prize" Glasgow Film Festival 2024) Icelandic football documentary "The Home Game" which has been screening on Rialto Channel on Sky here in NZ.
Small countries like Iceland and NZ are not hampered so much by a class system and can draw on a community's diverse talents - here even a tiny Icelandic fishing village has some very smart people with good coaching and organizational ability and people from all walks of life throw their hats in to achieve above anyone's expectations.
"The Home Game is a delightful low-budget Icelandic documentary that couldn't be further removed from the cash-rich, morally bankrupt propensities of professional soccer, and follows the tale of the reformation of a rural Icelandic village's football team, whose aim is to compete in the country's FA Cup competition on home soil for the first time in their history. Hellissandur, a remote fishing town in the West of Iceland, is home to a population of just 369 people and to the area's football team, Reynir FC....
This sleepy, rather unremarkable town is the birthplace of Kari Gylfason, a 30-something father of one, who seeks to complete what his father could not 25 years earlier when he first established the club and built a pitch with difficulty amongst volcanic rock, losing 10-0 away in their first and only FA Cup game. Kari must fashion a half-competent soccer team out of the community's willing and able-bodied — a tall order considering the limited pool of players and the extremely harsh Icelandic conditions." Review, Movieweb.com
Postscript: Reynir FC now compete in the Icelandic league system.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D1wPzVNCJI