Blerta Basholli

Basholli has previously lived in New York City for a time span of four years, allowing her to work on a number of projects as a student, among those being her short film “Lena and Me” which won awards in a number of international and Kosovo-based festivals.

In 2008 she was awarded with the Deans Fellowship at the Film Graduate Program at Tisch School of the Artists, NYU.

[2] Basholli completed her higher education at NYU, New York City, however she is currently based in Prishtina.

[1] 2021–Present: Worldwide Recognition Her most known film comes in 2021, and it tells the true story of Fahrije Hoti, a Kosovan woman’s challenge of opening a business in a patriarchal community.

Through Hive Basholli has also become the first Kosovan director to make it into the Oscars nomination shortlist, in the Best International Feature category.