Above: Yllka Gashi as Fahrije Hoti in Hive.
IN THE FIVE-DECADE history of the Sundance Film Festival, no film has won all three main awards (the Grand Jury Prize, the Audience Award and the Directing Award). Until last year, that is, when Hive, a low-budget arthouse film about a war widow who starts her own business selling honey and ‘ajvar’ (a spicy Balkan spread) in the aftermath of the Kosovo War, swept the board. For Kosovan debut filmmaker Blerta Basholli, it was fairly stunning.