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Director's Statement
At the centre of my story are young people. Teenagers who are about to turn 18. This age range has always intrigued me because these young people are in a transitional phase. That difficult moment in your life when you actually feel grown-up,but everybody treats you as a child. In my previous three films, the relationship between youth and adults was always strongly present. These films however, focused on young children and thereby the parent-child relation was less complex.
In Home, I want to explore the field of tension between two generations. How do adults go about their responsibilities towards teenagers and how do these young people try to find their way into adulthood themselves. In this community of two struggling generations, I looked for a storyline that centers on the themes of parental love, freedom, loyalty, betrayal and violence.
I don’t want to depict the young people as an apathetic, lost generation, but I do want to show that, with their confusing value system, it is difficult to correctly establish the fine line between right and wrong. The young people are looking for a meaningful set of morals and a place for themselves in an ever faster-paced and “smaller” world. I want to support this dynamic generation and try to depict it in a very human way. I want to show young people’s struggle to make sense of this world, and their difficult quest to find themselves and to become adults. The environment in which they grow up plays a key role in this quest. Every opportunity they get and every opinion they form is inextricably linked with the adults who surround them at that point in time, and who are assumed to support them and protect them. I don’t want to use this story to communicate how rotten the youth of today is, but to underscore how great the responsibility is that an adult bears in the development of a young person.