THE MOUNTAIN WON'T MOVE
France, North Macedonia, Slovenia 2024 – Director: Petra Seliškar – Original language: Macedonian – Subtitles: English – Length: 91 min.
Summer in the remote mountains of North Macedonia: for the brothers Zekir, Zarif and Zani, this means days of hard work. Without their parents, and only their younger siblings and dogs for company, they tend to hundreds of sheep and cows as generations have done before them. But is that really their future? A wild, unvarnished coming of age portrait set against a backdrop of spectacular natural scenery. Selime Schauer-Altinbilek
With age rating: FSK 12
German premiere
Biography
Petra Seliškar is a multi-award-winning Slovenian director, producer and screenwriter. Together with Brand Ferro, she founded the production company Petra Pan Film in 2003 and the MakeDox festival for creative documentaries in Macedonia in 2010.
Filmography (selection)
BODY, SL/MK/HR 2023, 92 min.
MOTHER EUROPE, SL/MK/HR 2013, 90 min.
THE GRANDMOTHERS OF REVOLUTION/BABICE REVOLUCIJE, MK/NL/CU/SL 2006, 96 min.
Nominated for the DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit
Writer: Petra Seliškar, Tancrède Rivière. Camera: Brand Ferro. Sound: Jules Valeur. Editing: Laureline Delom, Sashko Potter Micevski. Music: Iztok Koren. Production: Petra Pan Film (Slovenia), Cinéphage (France), PPFP. Producer: Petra Seliškar, Victor Ede, Sara Ferro. International Sales: Open Kitchen Films.
