To Hold a Mountain

2026 • 105’ • Serbia, France, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia

"Beautiful and poignant"
- AWFJ

"A tender portrait of female resistance"
- Slant

In the remote highlands of Montenegro’s Sinjajevina plateau, Gara and her thirteen-year-old daughter Nada return to their ancestral pastures every summer, where they herd animals, gather herbs and live in symbiosis with the mountain they call “Mother.” But their fragile world comes under threat when the Montenegrin government advances plans for a NATO-backed military training ground in the heart of this protected landscape. Gara emerges as an unexpected leader in the fight to defend Sinjajevina but, as Nada grows into young womanhood, the encroaching violence on the land awakens questions about her past, her future and the cycle of harm within her family she hopes to break.

Directors:
Biljana Tutorov & Petar Glomazić

Producers:
Petar Glomazić, Quentin Laurent, Rok Biček

Executive Producers:
Megan Gelstein, Andrea Meditch, Bianca Oana, Jean Tsien, Petra Costa, Sean Flynn, Ben Fowlie, Lucila Moctezuma, Chandra Jessee, Rebecca Lichtenfeld, Megha Agrawal Sood, Shanida Scotland

Festivals:
Sundance 2026 – Grand Jury Award: World Cinema Documentary
True/False 2026

Filmmaker’s Biography:

Biljana Tutorov is a writer, director and producer of feature and documentary films, video works and performances focused on women-driven stories that examine contemporary political reality, the state of democracy and environmental protection. After graduating in Art History from Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, Biljana studied Visual Anthropology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris and acting at the Jacques Lecoq School. 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.

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 and began working as editor in their Educational Program Department. In 2014, he entered the world of film production as an associate producer at Wake Up Films in Novi Sad, and in 2021 he founded the production company Ardor Films. A passionate life-long mountain climber, Peter has extensively researched regional traditions, people and landscapes. 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. In 2023, he received the inaugural Diane Weyermann Fellowship championing three non-fiction projects worldwide. To Hold a Mountain is his debut feature documentary.