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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]

References

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  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.