Kosovar filmmaker Blerta Basholli’s debut “Hive” won the Grand Jury Prize, the Directing Award and the Audience Award in the ...

Last January, filmmaker Blerta Basholli was just happy she had gotten into the Sundance Film Festival with her debut feature “Hive.” The Albanian-language film about a woman who starts her own ...

Amidst all the horrors of a war-torn decade that she would largely like to forget, one memory stands out for Kosovar filmmaker Kaltrina Krasniqi: the day her mother surprised the family with a VHS ...

A new movie about a rebellious teenage girl’s coming of age tells a wider story about Kosovo society in the troubled 1990s, director Parta Kelmendi says. Era (Zana Berisha) comes of age as the ...

Blerta Basholli says the Cannes award for her film about a girl maturing in war-afflicted Kosovo shows local films can reach an audience far beyond Kosovo’s borders. Five years ago, Blerta Basholli, a ...

LONDON, March 7 (Reuters) - The true story of a Kosovo war widow who defied tradition to launch a successful business enterprise is told in "Hive", a film its director hopes will educate viewers about ...

For the first time in its history, films by female directors won the Japanese festival's two top prizes. By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau Chief Kosovo filmmaker Kaltrina Krasniqi’s semi-autobiographical ...

PRIZREN, Kosovo, Aug 11 (Reuters) - The medieval fortress overlooking the southern Kosovo town of Prizren is one of the striking venues for Dokufest, a film festival that has become one of the Balkan ...