Director
Blerta Basholli
Born January 1, 1983 in Pristina, Kosovo
5 films
Blerta Basholli is a writer/director with a unique realistic visual style. Her stories touch upon social and gender issues from the country where she was born and raised, Kosova, and beyond.
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Basholli's debut feature film Hive (2021), broke Sundance records where she swept the Grand Jury Prize, the Directing Award, and the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic category, becoming the first film in the history of the Sundance Film Festival to do so.
In 2008 she was awarded the Dean's Fellowship at the Film Graduate Program at Tisch School of the Arts - NYU. She lived in New York City for four years where she had the opportunity to work on several film projects as a student.
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First watchHive20217.0Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo so she sets up her own small business to provide for her kids, but as she fights against a patriarchal society that does not…View filmFilmography
5 films as director- 2026DuaDirector
- 2021HiveDirector
- 2013The three of usDirector
- 2011Lena & IDirector
- 2009Gjakova 726Director