The film shows how, after his day in the monastery, an orthodox monk fills two bags of rocks, ritually climbs a hill while rocks fall and hurt him. At the top, he cries, empties his bags and gets down.

• Emir Kusturica …. Orthodox monk

This short film is a part of a project called “Words with Gods”, composed of 10 short films on the major religions in the world. The other directors are : Jose Padilha (Brazil), Warwick Thornton (Australia), Bahman Ghobadi (Iran), Mira Nair (India), Hideo Nakata (Japan) and Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico).

This whole film, is itself a part of a wider and ambitious project headed by Guillermo Arriaga, called “Heartbeat of the World”, containing four parts, the first one being on religion, the second one on sexual identity (Encounters), the third one on politics (Polis) and the last one on drugs addiction (Into the Bloodstream).

From 1 to 7 october took place the shooting of the short film : Emir Kusturica cae to the region of Trebinje (Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina) to direct it.

Moreover, it seems that Emir Kusturica particularly liked the region of Trebinje since he thinks of investing yhere. However little details emerged on this aspects (source : novosti.rs)