Blerta Basholli

Blerta Basholli

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.

  • Title: Blerta Basholli
  • Popularity: 0.1351
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1983-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Pristina, Kosovo
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Blerta Basholli Movies

  • 2011
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    Lena & I

    Lena & I

    4.5 2011 HD

    Lena and Ardi have to get married. As immigrants in America they agree to an arranged marriage by their old fashioned parents, who desperately want to keep the traditions. The comic and lovely moments between them start when they make another arrangement. Living for them selves too. Until it lasts. Based on true story.

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  • 2011
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    Lena & I

    Lena & I

    4.5 2011 HD

    Lena and Ardi have to get married. As immigrants in America they agree to an arranged marriage by their old fashioned parents, who desperately want to keep the traditions. The comic and lovely moments between them start when they make another arrangement. Living for them selves too. Until it lasts. Based on true story.

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  • 2011
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    Lena & I

    Lena & I

    4.5 2011 HD

    Lena and Ardi have to get married. As immigrants in America they agree to an arranged marriage by their old fashioned parents, who desperately want to keep the traditions. The comic and lovely moments between them start when they make another arrangement. Living for them selves too. Until it lasts. Based on true story.

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  • 2009
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    Gjakova 726

    Gjakova 726

    1 2009 HD

    Set during 1980-1999 events in Gjakova, the most war torn town from the last war in Kosovo, the film is a drama told by Vigani, a 12 year old boy from Gjakova, who's voice over describes his and his family's life during these years.

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  • 2009
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    Gjakova 726

    Gjakova 726

    1 2009 HD

    Set during 1980-1999 events in Gjakova, the most war torn town from the last war in Kosovo, the film is a drama told by Vigani, a 12 year old boy from Gjakova, who's voice over describes his and his family's life during these years.

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  • 2024
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    Housekeeping for Beginners

    Housekeeping for Beginners

    6.7 2024 HD

    Dita, who, despite never aspiring to be a mother, finds herself compelled to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters—Mia, a tiny troublemaker, and Vanesa, a rebellious teenager. As their individual wills clash, a heartwarming story unfolds about an unlikely family's struggle to stay together.

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  • 2021
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    Hive

    Hive

    6.994 2021 HD

    Fahrije’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 support her, she faces a crucial decision: to wait for his return, or to continue to persevere.

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  • 2021
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    Hive

    Hive

    6.994 2021 HD

    Fahrije’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 support her, she faces a crucial decision: to wait for his return, or to continue to persevere.

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  • 2021
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    Hive

    Hive

    6.994 2021 HD

    Fahrije’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 support her, she faces a crucial decision: to wait for his return, or to continue to persevere.

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  • 2011
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    The Shoemaker

    The Shoemaker

    1 2011 HD

    Shoemaker is based on true events, taking place in the 90’s in the town of Gjakova, Kosovo, where political issues start getting worse and worse, in this way drastically affecting the life of the inhabitants. The story is told through the eyes of Edoni, whose mother dies leaving him at his age of 5 alone with his helpless father. The story passes over a decade and at his age of 15 he starts work at a shoemaker store to support him and his drunken father. His story narrates violence, child abuse, and overloaded work, yet also few beautiful moments he has with his lovely girlfriend, Riga.

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  • 1970
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    Dua

    Dua

    1 1970 HD

    The daily life of a teenage girl and her family in Pristina at the end of the 90s. Kosovo is on the brink of war with Serbia, and 13-year-old Dua has to choose between the injunctions of her classmates and her own desires. But ethnic tensions are rising and danger is closing in on her family.

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  • 1970
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    Dua

    Dua

    1 1970 HD

    The daily life of a teenage girl and her family in Pristina at the end of the 90s. Kosovo is on the brink of war with Serbia, and 13-year-old Dua has to choose between the injunctions of her classmates and her own desires. But ethnic tensions are rising and danger is closing in on her family.

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  • 2013
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    The three of us

    The three of us

    1 2013 HD

    Kosovo, 1994. A family of 6 on their way to a picnic in the suburbs hears on the radio that the Serbian police are only allowing 3 passengers per vehicle. This is where it all begins: the panic, the discord, and the deep shock of this family.

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  • 2013
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    The three of us

    The three of us

    1 2013 HD

    Kosovo, 1994. A family of 6 on their way to a picnic in the suburbs hears on the radio that the Serbian police are only allowing 3 passengers per vehicle. This is where it all begins: the panic, the discord, and the deep shock of this family.

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  • 2013
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    The three of us

    The three of us

    1 2013 HD

    Kosovo, 1994. A family of 6 on their way to a picnic in the suburbs hears on the radio that the Serbian police are only allowing 3 passengers per vehicle. This is where it all begins: the panic, the discord, and the deep shock of this family.

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