At the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, the documentary To Hold a Mountain directed by Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić, won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema category.
In the words of the jury: “This visually and emotionally stunning film transported us to a remote mountain top and into the most intimate moments of a family fighting to protect not only their land, but their way of life. The truest example of the power of cinema to make the personal political.”
To Hold a Mountain is set in the remote highlands of Montenegro, where a shepherdess and her daughter defend their ancestral mountain pastures against the threat of a planned NATO military training ground.
Co-produced between Serbia, France, Montenegro, Slovenia and Croatia, filming took place over 7 years (from 2018 to 2025) on Mount Sinjajevina, in northern Montenegro.
Sources : FNE, Sundance Institute
