Looking for Horses

Name: Looking for Horses
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-04-07
Duration: 1 hr 28 min
Rating: 70

Movie

Audience Score

Watch on GuideDoc

NR 1 hr 28 minDocumentary

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 mothertongue due to a heavy 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 Where 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 Taking the shape of a gentle western Looking for Horses is a poetic documentary on trauma survival and connection

DirectorStefan Pavlović

WriterStefan Pavlović

Movie Details Where to Watch