Fall Flicks Flash: Hive

The Rehoboth Beach Film Society is pleased to announce a special event at Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware (UUSD) during the traditional RBIFF weekend. Four special films will be screened on Friday and Saturday (Nov.12 & 13), one at 10:30 am and another at 2 pm on both days. During these two days, UUSD will hold its popular quality craft show plus offer packaged baked goods and home-made soups for purchase. Hive is a beautifully made drama that tells the true story of a young Kosovan woman. The winner of three 2021 Sundance Film Festival Awards (World Cinema: Grand Jury Prize, Directing Award, and Audience Award) and Kosovo’s official entry for the 2022 Oscars for Best International Film, Hive follows Fahrije who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. In order to provide for her struggling family, she pulls together the other widows in her community to launch a business selling a local food product. Finding healing and solace in considering a future without their husbands, their will to begin living independently is met with hostility. 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 and the financial future of Fahrije's family. Against the backdrop of Eastern Europe's civil unrest and lingering misogyny, Fahrije and the women of her village join in a struggle to find hope in the face of an uncertain future. [2021, Albania, 84 min, Rated: NR, In Albanian with English subtitles] Alissa Wilkinson of Vox writes, “The film is stirring, infuriating, and ultimately hopeful.”   Venue: Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware. Presenter: Rehoboth Beach Film Society.