Looking for Horses

In an attempt to find his roots, the young director travels to Bosnia where he encounters a fisherman who has been living in solitude by a lake for the last eighteen years, away from civilisation, having taken refuge there after losing his hearing during the Bosnian War. Despite the communication barriers caused by the veteran’s hearing impairment as well as the fact that the filmmaker has been forgetting his native tongue and that he stutters, a strong bond gradually forms between the two men. Awarded at the Visions du Réel, Nancy and Sarajevo festivals, this poetic documentary not only charts the emergence of an unlikely friendship, but also finds an oasis of lake-world tranquillity in the midst of a broken country the conflicts in which have scarred generations. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)