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Hive (2021)

★★★ — Hive (2021)

Blerta Basholli's debut feature is based on the true story of Fahrije Hoti, a Kosovar woman whose husband disappeared during the 1998-1999 Kosovo War, one of the conflicts that followed the collapse of Yugoslavia and left thousands of families in a prolonged, painful uncertainty. Basholli, who also wrote the screenplay, spent years developing the project, and the film was a genuinely international co-production, pulling together funding from Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia and Switzerland. It premiered at Sundance in January 2021, where it made history by becoming the first film to sweep all three major prizes in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, taking the Grand Jury Prize, the Audience Award and the Directing Award simultaneously.

A-Z World Movie Tour Kosovo This actually became the first film in Sundance history to win all three main awards (the Grand Jury Prize, the Audience Award and the Directing Award) in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. This tells the true story of a lady in Kosovo called Fahrije who's husband went missing during the Kosovo war and was never found. She starts a collective of women in similar positions and through various methods of empowerment including driving and farming, start to take control of their lives and provide for their family. The eye opening part is that this village is super traditional and even something as mundane as women driving is seen as radical. This film basically depicts her struggle against that. Despite winning all those sundance awards it is pretty straightforward as a movie. There's no particularly great element to it. It's just slightly above average.

Rating: ★★★ | Year: 2021 | Watched: 2025-07-06

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