Blerta Basholli

Blerta Basholli

Known for

Directing

Born

January 1, 1983 (age 43)

Birthplace

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.

Best known work

Hive
Hive
2021
Housekeeping for Beginners
Housekeeping for Beginners
2024
Lena & I
Lena & I
2011
Dua
Dua
2026
Gjakova 726
Gjakova 726
2009
The Shoemaker
The Shoemaker
2011
The three of us
The three of us
2013

Filmography

  1. 2026

    Dua

    Director, Screenplay

  2. 2024

  3. 2021

    Hive

    Writer, Director, Casting Director

  4. 2013

    The three of us

    Director, Producer, Writer

  5. 2011

  6. 2011

    Lena & I

    Writer, Editor, Director

  7. 2009

    Gjakova 726

    Director, Writer

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