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    • NTC Award Ceremony
      New Talent Competition gives young filmmakers from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe the opportunity to present their outstanding debut or second film to the public. Join us on Sunday 1 December at 19h
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      The Eastern Neighbours Film Festival welcomes special musical guests each year to enrich our program. For this 16th edition, we’re thrilled to present two talented young musicians: guitarist Antonio Peršak (CR) and violinist İdil Yunkuş (TR). Together, they will perform a traditional Balkan dance and folk song, highlighting the beauty of this music through the… Read more: Music at ENFF
    • Masterclass with Janez Burger
      This masterclass presents a unique opportunity to explore Burger's distinct storytelling style, genre use, and exploration of contemporary social issues. Join us on Saturday 30 November at 17h - Room 5
    • Panel Discussion: Exploration of individual and collective memory in cinema
      Panel Discussion: Exploration of individual and collective memory in cinema on Friday 29 November at 18h

Looking for Horses

Winner of the main award at Visions du Reel and Special Jury Prize at Sarajevo FF, this compelling, beautifully made film was also chosen for the Best of Fest at IDFA. In a poetic and cinematically original language, it depicts a peculiar friendship between the filmmaker and a fisherman.

“Looking for Horses” is a film about a friendship between the filmmaker and a fisherman, who lost his hearing during the war in his homeland Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 90s and retreated to a lake to live in solitude. The filmmaker, the son of Bosnian parents, struggles to communicate as he lost his mother tongue and started to stutter. Despite their speech and hearing limitations, a strong and warm 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.

The Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France | 2021 | 88 min

DIRECTOR: Stefan Pavlovic

PRODUCTION: Kostana Banovic – artTrace Foundation, KAMEN artist residency, Momento! Films

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Stefan Pavlovic

EDITING: Sabine Groenewegen, Stefan Pavlovic

SOUND: Stefan Pavlovic, Ranko Paukovic

MUSIC: Karsten Fundal

Thursday 21.4. / 17:00h / Zaal 2

FESTIVALS & AWARDS (SELECTION) 

Visions du Reel, 2021 – World Premiere, Best Film Award (Burning Light competition) | Doc Alliance Award Nomination, 2021 | FID Marseille, 2021 | Sarajevo Film Festival, 2021 – Special Jury Prize (Documentary Competition) | Festival international du film de Nancy, 2021 – Special Jury Mention | IDFA, 2021