Hive

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

"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."

"A layer of ambivalence facilitates our identification with Fahrije but also makes her a distinct character and not just an archetype."

"What Basholli has made is a thoughtful, humanistic exploration of the fortitude needed to summon hope in a time and place resigned to hopelessness."

""Hive" seizes and holds your interest simply through the drama created by sympathetic characters trying to surmount awful, unfair hurdles."

"Somewhere behind "Hive," I think, you can hear the far-off cry of Euripides' "The Trojan Women"..."

"Though it doesn't break new ground, Hive still reminds one how urgently significant it is to honor the unique fighting spirit of women."

"It's based on a true story of feminist defiance and healing that counts as one of the more affecting tales of recovery to come from the conflict..."

"Yllka Gashi's portrayal of Hoti is excellently controlled..."