"The Peace of Our Lady" and "Ognjilo" premiered in November

Last Sunday, August 21, the filming of the short documentary film "Peace of Our Lady" was completed, based on the script and directed by Vladimir Perović, a well-known Montenegrin filmmaker from Risno. The executive producer is the Tivat Culture Center, and the film is supported by the funds of the Municipality of Kotor, whose Secretariat for Culture, Sports and Social Activities announced last year a Competition for the support of individual cultural creativity.

The Lady from the title is the Lady of Škrpjela, a magnificent islet/shrine in front of Perast, where, according to legend, more than four and a half centuries ago, when it was an ordinary rock (skrpio), sailors found the holy image of the Virgin and Child. Then, for decades, the people of Perašta replenished the cliff by bringing stones, created an artificial islet, and built a church on it, a holy place for believers, a pride for all the inhabitants of Boka, an unavoidable tourist destination visited by people from all over the world, from all cultures, nations, and religions. "Peace of our Lady" is not concerned with telling a legend, nor with tourist promotion, although it carries traces of both. The film, which the author defines as a creative documentary or as a visual essay, places the age-old peace of this unique cultural-historical and religious destination in the context of the busy tourist season. Crowded like a beehive, the sea area around the islet is like an overcrowded thoroughfare of a big city. Speedboats, scooters, yachts, sailboats, barges, boats, water carriages, and of course huge cruisers, which slip through the Chains like some prehistoric beasts, and their enormity and slow crawling - as if they threaten purity, beauty, peace, the whole spiritual atmosphere which Our Lady wears..." - stated the director Perović.

The filming of this short documentary involved intensive work, 15 hours a day, from dawn until late at night. Sveden's, in this case extremely effective team consisted of Vladimir Perović, Ivan Čojbašić, Jelena Božović and Neno Bubonja, and enormous help and support was provided by Blažo Krivokapić and the priest of Peraš Don Srećko Majić, who also gave permission for the film to be shot on the island and around him. If both editing and post-production go according to plan, as it was during filming, it is expected that the film could experience its first screenings at the end of November this year.

At the same time, on August 15, the same team completed the last phase of filming another short documentary, "Fire", the filming of which, due to the stretching of the power line network through the Katunska nahija (an integral part of the film), stretched over almost three years. Through his days, seasons and whole years, this film follows a mountaineer from the Katun Karst, a man whose landscape, his space, his life are invaded by unusual, mountainous metal neighbors, and he continues to live his life the way he used to live, and how generations of ancestors lived through the ages. The symbol of that life is the hearth from the title, a small, simple old-fashioned utensil used to shoot sparks from a flint stone.

According to the plan, this film should also have its premiere at the end of November, and then it will enter the world festival life.