Rotten Tomatoes
Suggestions will appear as you start typing. Submit search Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes

To Hold a Mountain

Play trailer Poster for To Hold a Mountain In Theaters Dec 16 1h 45m Documentary Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist Tomatometer Popcornmeter
94% Tomatometer 16 Reviews Popcornmeter 0 Verified Ratings
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.
Coming Soon In Theaters Dec 16 Notify Me

Cast & Crew

View All

Biljana Tutorov

Director

Petar Glomazić

Director

Biljana Tutorov

Screenwriter

Petar Glomazić

Screenwriter

Biljana Tutorov

Producer

Petar Glomazić

Producer

Critics Reviews

View More
Brian Tallerico RogerEbert.com Feb 3, 2026
It's cheesy but sometimes all you can do is what you’re capable of today, whether that’s something as simple as tending sheep or fighting back against a military occupation. Go to Full Review Christian Zilko IndieWire Feb 2, 2026
C+
It’s somewhat satisfying as both a travel documentary about a place few of us are likely to ever visit and a well-intentioned reminder that not everything needs to be modernized, but it doesn’t do much to transcend the sum of its parts. Go to Full Review Murtada Elfadl Variety Feb 2, 2026
It’s the kind of film that entrances its audience without them noticing. Only at the end does the audience fully grasp the magnitude of the story it chronicles and the natural beauty of the images they have been witnessing all along. Go to Full Review Jaylan Salah Geek Vibes Nation Sep 24, 2026
Glomazic and Tutorov frame the film as a contemporary epic, structured around two women at different stages of life, whose relationship to the land reflects both continuity and change. Go to Full Review Ricardo Gallegos La Estatuilla May 1, 2026
A documentary traversed by several struggles, of which it chooses the simplest, but also the one that best dialogues with the environment in which its story unfolds. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Zachary Goldkind In Review Online Apr 5, 2026
Tutorov and Glomazić’s perspective is one that stifles the complications of patriarchal violence and geopolitical problematization... [rather than] elucidating them in their knotted discourses. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
View All

To Hold a Mountain

View more photos

Movie Info

Synopsis 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.
Director
Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić
Producer
Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić, Quentin Laurent, Rok Bicek
Screenwriter
Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić
Distributor
Submarine Deluxe
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Montenegrin
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 16, 2026, Limited
Runtime
1h 45m
Join The Newsletter Join The Newsletter Cookie Settings