Lendita Zeqiraj

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Lendita Zeqiraj is a film director from Kosovo.

She was born in Prishtina, Kosovo. Her sister is filmmaker Blerta Zeqiri. [1]

In 2008, she released the short film Balcony. [2] In 2018, her short film Fence ("Gardhi") won Best International Short Film at DokuFest. [3] It also won Best Narrative Short at the Hamptons International Film Festival and the New Orleans Film Festival. [4] [5]

Her debut feature film, Aga's House, is about a young boy looking for his father and about trauma and rape survivors, set after the Kosovo War. [6]

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References

  1. Marí, Cristina (27 December 2018). "Lendita Zeqiraj: Until now, nobody has shown women in film as they are". Kosovo 2.0. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  2. Boyce, Laurence (30 June 2019). "Karlovy Vary 2019: Lendita Zeqiraj on the energetic, emotional 'Aga's House'". Screen Daily. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  3. Türker, Murat (12 August 2018). "Uzak Evren ve Meteorlar'a DokuFest'ten Ödül". bianet (in Turkish). Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  4. "Awards and Jurors". New Orleans Film Society. 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  5. "HIFF 2018: Awards". Hamptons Film Fest. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  6. Vourlias, Christopher (28 June 2019). "'Aga's House' Director Lendita Zeqiraj on Kosovo's Hidden Trauma, Healing". Variety. Retrieved 31 July 2020.