Looking for Horses
a film by Stefan Pavlović
The Netherlands/Bosnia and Herzegovina/France | 2021 | 88′
Production: artTrace
Co-production: KAMEN Artist Residency, Momento Films
Producer: Koštana Banović
Sales and distribution: Lightdox
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Synopsis
Looking for Horses is a film about a friendship between the filmmaker and a fisherman who lost his hearing during the Bosnian 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 heavy stutter and growing up with many different languages. Despite their hearing and speech limitations, a strong friendship unfolds between the young man and the veteran, as the fisherman shares his world of the lake. The camera mediates their growing bond. Taking the shape of a gentle western, Looking for Horses is a poetic documentary on trauma, survival, and connection.
Awards
- BEST FEATURE AWARD, Burning Lights Competition, Visions du Réel 2021
- SPECIAL JURY AWARD, Competition Programme, Sarajevo Film Festival 2021
- SPECIAL JURY MENTION, Festival International du Film de Nancy 2021
- GRAND PRIX, Corsica.Doc 2021
- GRAND PRIX, International Feature Length Competition RIDM 2021
- GOLDEN KEY FEATURE FILM AWARD, Kasseler Dokfest 2021
- BALCANI CAUCASOTRANSEUROPA Best Documentary, Trieste Film Festival 2022
- SPECIAL JURY AWARD, Ismailia International Film Festival 2022
- BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM AWARD, Ann Arbor Film Festival 2022
- BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE, AmDocs 2022
- AUDIENCE AWARD, SEEfest Los Angeles 2022
- FEATURE FILM SPECIAL MENTION, Faito Doc Festival 2022
- SPECIAL MENTION in the Feature section by the Youth Jury at Faito Doc Festival 2022
- CIMBRICUM VERONENSE CURATORIUM AWARD in memory of Piero Piazzola and Mario Pigozz for the BEST FILM BY A YOUNG FILMMAKER, Lessinia FF 2022
Screenings
- World Premiere: Visions du Réel – April 2021
- 2021 FID Marseille
- 2021 Sarajevo Film Festival
- 2021 Festival International du Film de Nancy
- 2021 Beldocs2021 Corsica.Doc
- 2021 DOK Leipzig
- 2021 Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
- 2021 MIDBO International Documentary Film Festival Bogotá
- 2021 Cork Film Festival
- 2021 RIDM
- 2021 Kasseler DocFest
- 2021 IDFA
- 2021 Porto/Post/Doc
- 2021 This Human World
- 2021 Human Rights Film Festival Zagreb
- 2022 Trieste Film Festival
- 2022 DocPoint Film Festival
- 2022 Santa Barbara IFF
- 2022 Ismailia IFF, Egypt
- 2022 Ann Arbor Film Festival
- 2022 American Documentary and Animation Film Festival AmDocs
- 2022 Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg
- 2022 South East European Film Festival-SEEfest, Los Angeles, US
- 2022 Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, Den Haag
- 2022 Taiwan International Documentary Festival
- 2022 Ethnocineca
- 2022 One World Romania
- 2022 Underhill Fest
- 2022 Faito Doc Festival
- 2022 Lessinia FF
- 2022 Asincronie Festival di Cinema Documentario e Fotografia
- 2022 Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries, Latvia
- 2022 Nederlands Film Festival, The Netherlands
- 2022 Aegean Docs, Limnos, Greece
- 2023 Ellipsis, The Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
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2025 Now Instant Image Hall, Los Angeles, United States
And more
UnionDocs (Special Preview)
iii workspace, Cultural centre The Hague, The Netherlands