A White Screen Is Visible by Sohaib Bouaiss 

After two years of online only festivals the 2022 edition of the festival is taking place in hybrid form. With a selection of over 180 films the festival provides a stage for a wide variety of experimental film, performance based works and new media art. 
Selected for the Feature in Competition section is Looking For Horses a documentary by Stefan Pavlovic and produced by ArtTrace  The film had its world premiere at Nyon Visions du Réel earlier this year. It is a film about the friendship between the filmmaker and a fisherman. One lost his mother-tongue because of a stutter, the other lost his hearing during the Bosnian civil war. They look for ways to communicate, while the camera mediates their growing bond. and sales is handled by Lightdox.

Furthermore two Dutch short films have been selected for the international competition; Lacerate by Janis Rafa and In Between Art Film and A White Screen Is Visible, graduation film of Sohaib Bouaiss for the Willem de Kooning Academy. 

A White Screen Is Visible is a short animation based on the filmmaker's experiences growing up in multiple cultures. It abstractly documents the search to finding his identity, guided through the parasomnic experiences that frequented his youth. 

Janis Rafa's minority co-production Lacerate had its international premiere at FID Marseille. Inspired by the iconography of biblical paintings and Flemish still-lifes it reflects on the subject of domestic and gender violence by portraying the extreme decision of a woman who turns from victim into executioner. The work was commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film. 

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