Hive

A feature fiction film by Blerta Basholli

Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo and her family is struggling financially. In order to provide for them she launches a small agricultural business, but in the traditional patriarchal village where she lives, her ambition and efforts to empower herself and other women are not seen as positive things. She struggles not only to keep her family afloat but also against a hostile community who is rooting for her to fail.

World premiere:
- 2021, Sundance Film Festival
Awards:
- 2022, Dublin International Film Festival: Best Debut Feature
- 2021, Sundance Film Festival: Jury prize Cinéma du Monde, Best direction: World Cinema Dramatic, Public prize: World Cinema Dramatic
- 2021, Cinedays European Film Festival Skopje: Best film (Golden Star)
- 2021, Filmski Herceg Novi – Montenegro Film Festival: Best Actress
- 2021, Prishtina International Film Festival: Best Balkan feature Film, Annual Achievement Award
- 2021, Berkshire International Film Festival: Best Narrative Feature
- 2021, Filmfest Hamburg: NDR young talent prize
- 2021, Warsaw Film Festival: Best Film in Competition 1-2
- 2021, SEMINIC: FUNDOS Award
- 2021, Thessaloniki Film Festival: FISCHER Audience Award
- 2021, Crested Butte Film Festival: Best Narrative Feature
- 2021, Scottsdale Film Festival: Best Actress
- 2021, Braunschweig International Film Festival: Tilda Award
- 2021, Osnabrück Independent Film Festival: Freedom Film Prize
- 2021, Cinemed – International Mediterranean Film Festival of Montpellier: Golden Antigone
- 2021, ODA – Tetova International Film Festival: Best Film
- 2021, Les Arcs European Film Festival: Audience Choice Prize, Young Jury Prize
- 2021, Valladolid International Film Festival: Best Actress
- Coproducers:
  Industria Film (XK), Ikonë Studio (XK), Albasky Film Production (AL), Black Cat Production (MK)
- Cast:
  Yllka Gashi, Çun Lajçi, Aurita Agushi, Kumrije Hoxha, Adriana Matoshi, Kaona Sylejmani, Ilir Prapashtica, Astri Kabashi, Molikë Maxhuni, Blerta Ismaili
- Writer and Director:
  Blerta Basholli
- Cinematographer:
  Alexander Bloom
- Editors:
  Félix Sandri, Enis Saraçi
- Sound Department:
  Philippe Ciompi
- Specs:
  84’, XK, CH, MK, AL, 2021
- Language:
  Albanian

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Blerta Basholli

Born in 1983 in Kosovo, Blerta Basholli successively studied philosophy and then cinema at the University of Prishtina. She continued her training at the New York City – Tisch School of Art – Film and Television.