In the remote highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and her teenage daughter fiercely resist the threat of their mountain home being converted into a NATO military training ground. From domestic rituals to the physical demands of pastoral labour, their lives are sustained by generations of intimate, ancestral understanding of the land they are determined to protect. Beautifully paced and visually arresting, the film builds into an ecological chronicle of resilience passed down across generations of women, reflecting on the fragile coexistence between ancestral knowledge and the growing pressures of the contemporary world.
Review:
A beautifully paced, visually arresting ecological chronicle that finds real power in its generational portrait of resilience, deservedly recognised with Sundance's World Documentary Prize.
