Shot through with compassion and filmmaking brio, Home Games is a portrait of a young woman confronting the chasm between dreams and reality. 20-year-old Alina is a talented footballer from the suburbs of Kyiv, on the verge of a call-up to the Ukrainian national team. When her mother dies, and she is left to care for her younger brother and sister, her sporting aspirations run up against the harsh realities of familial duty. Alisa Kovalenko’s engagingly direct documentary is a triumph of empathetic, low-budget filmmaking.