Each year, three brothers - Zekir, Zarif, and Zani - spend several months in the Macedonian mountains, looking after their family’s flock. The older brothers, Zekir and Zarif, lead the sheep in the upper pastures, while the younger, Zani, stays in a lower hut and takes care of the cows. At an altitude of 2,400 meters, far from any community or society, the brothers live a free yet precarious life, filled with hard work, simple games and innocent joy. As they come of age, many questions arise in the brothers’ minds: who are they, individually and in relation to each other? Can they manage a sustainable life as shepherds? What lies ahead for them in their future? As tensions grow between Zekir and Zarif, the latter becomes eager to change his life.
Slovenia, North Macedonia, France 2025, '95
DIRECTOR: Petra Seliškar
SCENARIO: Petra Seliškar, Tancrède Rivière
CAMERA: Brand Ferro
MONTAGE: Laureline Delom, Sashko Potter Micevski
MUSIC: Iztok Koren
PRODUCERS: Petra Seliškar, Victor Ede, Sara Ferro
PRODUCTION: Petra Pan Film, Cinephage Productions, PPFP
FESTIVALS & AWARDS:
Guadalajara IFF (2025): Best Socio-Environmental Film
Underhill Festival (2025): Special Mention
Dokudoc (2025): Special Mention
Štigličev's View Awards (2026)
Festival International d’Autrans (2025): Main Award
Visions du Réel
DOK.fest Munich
MakeDox
DokuFest
Astra FF
Petra Seliškar
Petra Seliškar is a Slovenian documentary writer, director and producer with a rich experience and singular talent. She has flourished as a filmmaker with profound insight, sensibility, strong narrative force and innovative approaches. Seliškar has the ability to recognise hidden details, and through them discovers and highlights the essence in art, culture, nature and all aspects of life. This is why she dedicated her time on this planet to life’s little pleasure, and of course, cinema. She is currently filming her seventh feature length documentary Torso of an Old Cat. Besides her own works, Seliškar has produced films by acclaimed international filmmakers, including Claudia Tosi, Peter Zach, Francesco Fei, Damian Nenadić, Jean-Robert Viallet, Ineke Smith and Iiris Saaren-Seppälä.