To Hold a Mountain
Armed with lessons learned from a painful past, women put up a quiet but resilient fight to preserve the dignity of their lives and home in the breathtaking Montenegrin highlands.
Description
At first glance, Gara is a simple farmer, tending her crops and animals, making cheese, and caring for adolescent Nada. But there is far more to this woman who lives amid the beauty and isolation of Montenegro’s mountainous Sinjajevina plateau. Gara’s quiet but intense love for Nada is an extension of the deep love she feels for this land she calls home. Her story is intertwined with that of this breathtaking region, the place where she protects Nada and nurtures the girl’s future with hard-earned wisdom. When NATO forces propose turning the area into a field for military exercises, Gara further demonstrates her grit as she takes action to oppose the plan. A mesmerizing vérité plunge into rural life, what could have been a simple and romanticizing document of women’s lives in Montenegro is instead a portrait of quiet and steadfast resilience. —Bedatri Choudhury
Biographies
Petar Glomazić graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Belgrade in 1995, specializing in Aerospace Engineering, and worked for more than 25 years as an expert in civil aviation. In 1996, he also completed the Serbian Radio-Television School for documentary. He is a member of the Documentary Association of Europe (DAE), the International Documentary Association (IDA) and a co-founding member of the Save Sinjajevina Association. To Hold a Mountain is his debut feature documentary.
Biljana Tutorov is a writer, director, and producer of feature and documentary films, video works, and performances focused on women-driven stories. She is the founder of Wake Up Films, an independent production company, as well as the founder and head of CIRCLE, an international training initiative supporting women and gender-expansive filmmakers. Biljana is an inaugural Diane Weyermann Fellow, an EAVE and EURODOC alumna, member of European Film Academy and an advisory board member of DAE Documentary Association of Europe.
