In today’s uncertain world, what is the meaning of home?

A NEW DOCUMENTARY FILM

Over the course of four years, filmmaker Alan Govenar talked to over 60 people around the globe about the ever-evolving ways we think and feel about one of our most basic needs – from a college student in Buenos Aires to a homeless couple living in a makeshift tent in the woods, a hot dog vendor in New York City, an artist in Nairobi, and a man and woman whose unlikely relationship emerged during France’s Covid lockdown.

As global crises have left millions of people both bound to and displaced from their physical habitats, Looking for Home resonates across time and place, in search of a deeper meaning of home — a concept universally embraced, but which is now in an unprecedented state of flux.

  • Writer/director Alan Govenar has created an endlessly fascinating, wide-ranging celebration of the diversity that is the human race. In his fabulous documentary, “Looking for Home,” people from all walks of life share their thoughts and feelings, and show us what they believe a home is.

    Richard Alaniz, KPFK Film Club

  • Govenar’s film is a transformative, hypnotic dream which makes one question one’s idea of home and life itself.

    Tom Needham, “The Sounds of Film” WUSB

  • Heartwarming doesn’t even begin to describe this film; the interviews in this documentary make you understand and realize precisely what home means!

    Chris Jones, Overly Honest Film Reviews

  • “Looking for Home” will expand your mind and pull you outside the walls of your ‘home,’ no matter what shape, form, or location it takes.

    Alan Ng, FilmThreat

  • “Looking for Home” leaps from all cliches about the meaning of ‘home’ into the existential corners of the spartan, cozy, nomadic, familial, secluded, overcrowded, and creative aspects of life before, during and since the pandemic. Alan Govenar's curiosity and camera are most thoughtful and humane.

    Janet Coleman, WBAI Radio/NY

  • “Looking for Home” is profound without ever being heavy, or heavy-handed. A film that's light on its feet, perfect pacing, beautifully shot, and always surprising.

    Ben Fountain, National Book Critics Circle Award winner

  • The beauty of the film lies within the expression of a universal human desire to belong to something greater than oneself.

    Bridgit Patterson, Video Librarian

  • “Looking For Home's” inquisitive nature allows for many revelatory explanations, definitions, and beliefs to be linked. A doc that allows its subjects to open their lives to us all. A lovely film to gain reflection on our own ideas of what is home.

    Gadi Elkon, Selig Film News