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Looking for Horses

2021 / 88' Dir. Stefan Pavlovic Prod. artTrace Foundation

Looking for Horses

Stefan Pavlovic

A documentary film about a friendship between the filmmaker and a fisherman. One lost his mother-tongue because of a stutter, the other lost his hearing during the Bosnian civil war.

'Looking for Horses' is a film about a friendship between the filmmaker and a fisherman, who lost his hearing during the Bosnian civil war and retreated to a lake to live in solitude. The filmmaker, son of Bosnian parents, struggles to communicate as he lost his mother tongue due to a stutter. Despite their speech and hearing limitations, a bond develops between the young man and the veteran, as he shares his world of the lake: full of large catfish, wild horses, wide silences, and dangerous thunderstorms. For the fisherman, the lake stands for a withdrawal from a fractured country, a land of war; for the filmmaker it precisely means the return to that broken place, the land of his parents. They look for ways to communicate, while the camera mediates their growing bond. Through its formal choices, this poetic documentary explores the connection between language, friendship and trauma.

Main Category: Documentary
Expected Completion: March 2021
Original Film Title: Looking for Horses
English Film Title: Looking for Horses
Production Year: 2021
Running Time: 88
Original Language: English · Bosnian
Colour / B&W: Colour
Genre: Documentary
Director: Stefan Pavlovic
Debut Status: 1st Feature Doc
Filmography Director: When the Dragon Came (2018, short doc), Horse (2017, short doc), Pearl & Werther (2016, short doc).
Main Production Company: artTrace Foundation
Main Production - Person(s): Koštana Banović
Main Production Company Phone: +31 6 25184681
Main Production Company E-mail: info@arttrace.nl
Main Production Company Website: www.arttrace.nl
Co-production company: Kamen Artist Residency · Momento Film
Sales Agent: Lightdox
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