SELITEV

The 30-year-old female protagonist reaches in panic for the light switch when she sees the dark silhouette of a man in the empty house opposite. She immediately remembers that there is a refugee tent camp not far from her chic new housing estate. She frantically runs through the flat, locks the door, and hallucinates that the unknown man will kill her. Is everything just a nightmare or is it reality after all?

Director Žiga Virc (HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!, FFC 2016) is adept at exaggeration in his portrayal of the paranoid fears of threat from strangers, something that is not only restricted to Slovenian society. A fascinating symmetry of images and the camera's suggestive first-person perspective make A NEW HOME a fascinating psychoanalytical thriller about the fragile relationship determined by prejudices and threat scenarios between Central Europeans and refugees at the height of the so-called “refugee crisis”. FK