Sundance triple award winner HIVE is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije, who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope since her husband went missing in Kosovo. In order to provide for her family, she pulls the other widows in her community together to launch a business. Together, they find healing and solace.

But the men in the village condemn Fahrije’s efforts to empower herself and the women around her, starting a feud that threatens their newfound sovereignty. Fahrije and the women of her village join in a struggle to find hope in the face of an uncertain future.

Winner of the Audience Award, Directing Award, and World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, HIVE is a pithy, devastating portrait of loss and our uphill journeys to freedom. Albanian with subtitles.

NR, 84 min.

Sundance 2021 triple award-winner: Grand Jury Prize, Directing Award, Audience Award World Cinema Competition

"Hive builds a strong storyline around the self-reliance and determination of an uneducated country woman, played with glammed-down but riveting cool by a granite-faced Yllka Gashi." - Hollywood Reporter

"HIVE is about the hard-won rewards of resilience, but there's a sting..." - Variety

"Very simple grassroots-looking filmmaking makes what's on view all the more realistic. A fact-based allegory guaranteed to inspire." - National Newspaper Publishers Association