- Source: Blerta Zeqiri
Blerta Zeqiri (born 1979) is a film director from Kosovo. Her work primarily focuses on missing people and LGBT rights issues.
Zeqiri was born in 1979 in Kosovo and grew up in Suva Reka. As a teen, she was a hip-hop artist in Kosovo. In 1999, her and her family escaped a massacre in their hometown during the Kosovo War; Zeqiri subsequently immigrated that year to France, as a refugee of the war.
In 2004, Zeqiri co-directed the short film "Exit". She directed the short movie "The Return" ("Kthimi"), which was shot in three days and was about a couple that reunites after the Kosovo War. The film won the Jury Prize in Short Film, International Fiction at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. Her debut feature-length film, The Marriage ("Martesa"), was released in 2018 and focused on LGBT rights. The Marriage was directed by Zeqiri and co-written by her and Kreshnik Berisha, her partner. In 2018, Kosovo selected the film as their country's submission for the Oscars' best foreign-language film category.
In 2019, she was awarded a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters from France.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Blerta Zeqiri
- Blerta (name)
- The Marriage (2017 film)
- Festivali i Këngës (Kosovo)
- Lendita Zeqiraj
- Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
- Heart of Sarajevo
- List of submissions to the 91st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Kosovan submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
- Prishtina International Film Festival
