‘Goats are good. They listen’: the herder who defeated Montenegro’s military – and can identify her cows’ herby burps
To Hold a Mountain tells the incredible story of a woman whose way of life was threatened when she heard her pastures were set to become a Nato training zone The star of To Hold a Mountain is having trouble with her…
Source: The Guardian ·
To Hold a Mountain tells the incredible story of a woman whose way of life was threatened when she heard her pastures were set to become a Nato training zone The star of To Hold a Mountain is having trouble with her goats, which keep escaping. So my interview with Mileva “Gara” Jovanović is rescheduled to a moment where the animals are under control and Gara can descend from the peaks to her small winter residence in the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica, for a video call. “You have to take care of them because they are always searching for their paths,” says Gara, whose Montenegrin is translated into English by Biljana Tutorov, the joint writer-director of the stunning film about Gara’s life in the mountains of Sinjajevina. “But the goats are good, especially when they know the shepherdess. I’m a good shepherdess. They listen to me.”