Hive

A lasting trauma reflected in movies

Kosovo actress Yllka Gashi, playing the main role in the Kosovo award winning film The Hive by Blerta Basholli. Photo: courtesy of producer Yll Uka

Most of these films focus on the long-term effects of the war of the late-1990s, and on what is being done in terms of reconciliation.

Norika Sefa traces her passion for making movies to her father's own habit of capturing family events on film when she was a child in Kosovo.

What at first seems like terrible housekeeping turns out to be a clever ploy to fend off huge predators, which can otherwise easily destroy a hive

Blerta Basholli recalls a professor at the Arts Academy in Pristina showing her class a filmstrip by candlelight in the first few chaotic years after Kosovo's 1998-99 war, when the former Serbian province was plagued by power cuts and cutting edge technology was hard to come by.

EnduroSat
Space scientist Raycho Raychev's three-year-old start-up, EnduroSat, aims to make miniature satellites available at affordable prices to universities, research institutes and commercial users. "There's an unprecedented number of applications for our modules — from ship and truck tracking and navigation to astronomy, astrophysics and pharmacology," he says.

Nonprofit organization Hydra 21 and the Historical Archives - Museum of Hydra will hold a sale of weapons used during the 1821-32 Greek War of Independence on Saturday, August 5.