Blerta Basholli

Biographie

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.

Biographie disponible en anglais sur la source TMDB.