The mountain won’t move
Directed: Petra Seliškar
Written: Petra Seliškar, Tancrède Rivière
Cinematography: Brand Ferro
Editing: Laureline Delom, Sashko Potter Micevski
Sound: Jules Valeur
Music: Iztok Koren
Producers: Sara Ferro (PPFP), Victor Ede (Cinephage), Petra Seliškar (Petra Pan Film’s)
Festivals and Awards: Munich International Documentary Festival 2025 | Selección Oficial, Visions du Réel 2025 | Selección Oficial
While the children are enjoying their summer holidays, Basri, 8, heads off to the Macedonian mountains to join his brothers. They are the shepherds of hundreds of sheep, helped by huge dogs that protect them from wolves. For Basri, it’s freedom, while his teenage brothers dream of elsewhere.
Petra Seliškar was born in 1978 in Ljubljana. She studied directing and production at the National Film Academy in Amsterdam and earned a Master’s degree in Film Arts from Sheffield Hallam University in England. Since 2003, she has been running her own production company, Petra Pan Production, and works primarily in Slovenia, Macedonia, and Croatia. Her most notable success so far has been the documentary The Grandmothers of Revolution, which was screened at IDFA.