Person
Blerta Basholli
Directing · Born 1983-01-01 · Pristina, Kosovo
Biography
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. 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.
Known for
Gjakova 726
Director
Lena & I
Writer
Hive
Director
The Shoemaker
Editor
Housekeeping for Beginners
Producer
The three of us
Director
Dua
Director
Filmography
- 2026DuaDirector
- 2024Housekeeping for BeginnersProducer
- 2021HiveDirector
- 2013The three of usDirector
- 2011The ShoemakerEditor
- 2011Lena & IWriter
- 2009Gjakova 726Director
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