"The Marriage," the first feature from award-winning shorts director Blerta Zeqiri, is a love triangle of sorts between a couple who are about to be married and the groom-to-be's gay lover, who ...

With a Sundance Festival award under its belt, Blerta Zeqiri’s ‘The Return’ looks like ending the run of Kosovo war movies that passed into film oblivion. As far as movies about the Balkans are ...

Pristina’s fast-growing film festival kicks off this month, but industry insiders complain that despite such events cinematography in Kosovo continues to underperform. This post is also available in ...

Kosovo Albanian director Isa Qosya, who has not made a film in 17 years, said Kukumi was his way of showing how years of ethnic conflict had dehumanised people in the region. The film, shot entirely ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is certainly not the first time that well-known and at times controversial Bosnian-Serb film director Emir Kusturica has found himself in the middle of a controversy about his work regarding the ...

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 ...

"Being in the public with a camera was no different to being in public with a weapon because of how much it could affect reality." This outstanding short documentary film takes us to the Balkan ...

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 ...

Now in its 14th year, DokuFest is a documentary and short film festival in the picaresque historical town of Prizren in the southwest corner of Kosovo. In 2013, I came here for the European premiere ...

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 ...