2026 Winners

Montenegro - Die Schäferin und der Wind des Fortschritts

Competition : Docu competition
Category : Sustainable agriculture
Country : Germany
Sponsor : Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
Producer : B-Picture GbR
Director : Galina Breitkreuz
Lenght : 00:43:15
Trophée argent

Resume

Slavka Adžović owns 170 sheep and goats. She is the only woman in Montenegro who works as a shepherdess and the only Romani woman in the country who earns her living this way. She never learnt to read or write. Yet, through her love of animals, she still found a way to make her mark as an independent farmer. Alongside her mountain hut on the windswept plateau of Krnovo, four calves and 14 cows also graze, and she sells their milk. Slavka Adžović tells a modern shepherding story and of her self-determined life caught between tradition and progress.

Objectif

Arte audience, people interested in other cultures, human life stories, sustainable way of living.

Slavka Adžović owns 170 sheep and goats. She is the only woman in Montenegro who works as a shepherdess and the only Romani woman in the country who earns her living this way. She never learnt to read or write. Yet, through her love of animals, she still found a way to make her mark as an independent farmer. Alongside her mountain hut on the windswept plateau of Krnovo, four calves and 14 cows also graze, and she sells their milk. Slavka Adžović tells a modern shepherding story and of her self-determined life caught between tradition and progress.