4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Yllka Gashi is Kosovo’s answer to Jennifer Aniston. After years starring in the nation’s most adored sit-com, she left her war torn country to raise her daughter in the US. But a certain story stuck with her: a war widow who eked out a living selling honey from her husband’s beehives. 8 years in the making, HIVE won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance and was Kosovo’s official Oscar submission, making it onto the shortlist of films being considered for nomination. This is a conversation for people who wonder about the relationship between hardship, grit and integration.
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0:00.0 | I didn't know if my family made it to the border. |
0:04.0 | I didn't know if I will ever see them again. |
0:09.0 | Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. |
0:16.0 | I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I'm wondering about the specific relationship between hardship, |
0:22.0 | resilience and integration. |
0:25.0 | Family, where do we put the things that have happened to us and around us, |
0:30.0 | the things that keep happening despite our passionate objections? |
0:35.0 | My guest is a survivor of the war in Kosovo and an internationally known actress. |
0:40.0 | She's an immigrant mother and a human rights activist. |
0:43.0 | Her name is Yolka Gashi, so join us for a conversation about processing, |
0:48.0 | the hardest truths we face as humans and finding hope nonetheless. |
0:53.0 | We'll be right back with Kelly Corrigan Wonders. |
1:06.0 | Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. |
1:08.0 | I'm Kelly Corrigan and today's the fourth and final episode |
1:11.0 | in a series we called How Do You Do That? |
1:14.0 | Where we marvel at the lives of women who have made radical, essential changes. |
1:21.0 | The kind's life sometimes requires of us. |
1:24.0 | My guest today, Yolka Gashi, has lived more highs and more lows than most people I know. |
1:31.0 | She survived the war in Kosovo, then five years later, |
1:34.0 | starred in their biggest sitcom ever. |
1:37.0 | She's also the wife of the brilliant and limitless talent, Albian Gagica, who I know as Gaggi. |
1:43.0 | He's been my creative partner and designer for, I don't know, almost 10 years now, |
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