Montenegro mother and daughter protect their ancestral pasture, "To Hold a Mountain" trailer released

ˆ To Hold a Mountain, which won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary Section at the Sundance Film Festival this year, has released a US trailer.After premiering at Sundance at the beginning of the year, the film will now be distributed in select theaters in the United States by Submarine Deluxe starting on December 16.

Gala in the camera is a shepherding mother.Every summer, she takes her 13-year-old daughter Nada back to her ancestral pasture on the Sinyayevena Plateau in Montenegro, where she grazes cattle, collects herbs, and lives off the mountain they call Mother.

This living space is facing change: the Montenegrin government is moving ahead with plans for a NATO-backed military training ground deep in the protected mountains.Therefore, Gala went to the front of the protest, expressed his opposition directly to the government, and defended Sinyayevina through protests and other actions.“Only we people here know how to protect this mountain.”In the trailer, she is riding on a horse, holding a microphone and speaking to the surrounding crowd.

The film also tracks the more intimate experiences between mother and daughter.As Nada grows up, external threats of violence arouse her questions about her family's past and affect her imagination of the future.She hopes to break the cycle of harm that perpetuates within families.

《Hold a Mountain》co-directed by Biliana Tutorov and Petar Gromazic, is their first feature film collaboration.Tutorov previously directed When Pigs Come and also served as producer on Matriarch.The film's production team also includes Rock Bicek, Quentin Laurent, and the two directors themselves.

FirstShowing author Alex Billington described it as a moving and uplifting documentary, especially mentioning Gala's journey from a shepherding mother to a leader in land conservation action.