“Four women, four heroines, who share a common fate. They have been brutally stricken by misfortune. It is not their shared past that brought them together, but it is \u201cHope\u201d that keeps them alive, encouraging them to move on.
\u201cHope\u201d is what keeps mother Ferdonije alive who, during last Kosovo\u2019s war, lost her four sons and husband. Two of her sons\u2019 bodies have been recovered, while her husband and two other sons remain missing. She does not accept the loss of her husband and two other sons but hopes that they are alive somewhere and that they\u2019ll return one day.
\u201cHope\u201d is what Auntie wishes for a better life in the future. She provides for herself by collecting cans. Her daily life is laborious and burdensome, but it is \u201cHope\u201d that gives her the strength to get through life, although with great difficulty.
\u201cHope\u201d is also what keeps Makfirete alive. She has been stricken by a particular calamity. Her son has been in a coma for years. She looks after him every day. Makfirete\u2019s pain, sadness, and grief are ever present. However, \u201cHope\u201d that one day her son will recover and will go back to his normal life is what keeps her going.
Valentina \u201chopes\u201d, for a better life, as life has hit her hard in the past. After the death of her father and two brothers in the war, she had to look after her entire family. She has found the person she is destined to be with, her husband, and is waiting to get together with him. While waiting, she recalls her troublesome past, full of grief and struggles.
Therefore, although life can sometimes be very difficult, one must always try to find something to hold onto. Without hope, these four characters\u2019 lives would have ended a long time ago. \u201cHope\u201d has a power that even magic does not.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vjosa Abazi is an Albanian actress, known for her roles in theatre, movies and series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Hill Where The Lionesses Roar\u201d film, in the Golden Camera (Cam\u00e9ra d’Or) )competition in Cannes International Film Festival.
Sarajevo film Festival, Toronto film Festival.
\u201dVera dreams of the sea \u201c, in Venezia Film Festival
She worked for 14 years in a National TV as show leader mainly prompting women.
Currently she works in theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“HOPE” by Vjosa Abazi is winner of 11th Edition of International Filmmaker Festival of New York “Four women, four heroines, who share a common fate. They have been brutally stricken by misfortune. It is not their shared past that brought them together, but it is \u201cHope\u201d that keeps them alive, encouraging them to move on.\u201cHope\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18717,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833\/revisions\/18717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}