The Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France/ 2021/88’
DIRECTED BY: Stefan Pavlović
SCREENPLAY BY: Stefan Pavlović
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Stefan Pavlović
EDITED BY: Stefan Pavlović, Sabine Groenewegen
PRODUCERS: Koštana Banović
PRODUCED BY: artTrace, Momento Films, KAMEN art residency
FESTIVALS & AWARDS: Specijalna nagrada žirija, Sarajevo FF 2021; nagrada međunarodne selekcije Burning Lights, Nyon Visions du Réel 2021; službena selekcija, Beldocs Festival 2021
This 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.
Stefan Pavlovic was born in The Netherlands to parents in the diaspora, coming from former Yugoslavia. In 2008 he moved to California and studied filmmaking at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Upon graduating he was hired as the personal assistant to prestigious commercial film maker Tom Kuntz. His work exists between the experimental documentary and the linear narrative realm; combining improvisation and orchestration, non-actors and professionals, he looks for an intimacy that is build on real relationships, on time spent and on space shared..