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Hive, the debut feature from writer-director Blerta Basholli that won a trio of awards at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, has been submitted by Kosovo for this year’s International Feature Oscar race.

Over 24 hours in Kabul, brutality, trauma, moments of grace— US: Afghan evacuees who fail initial screening Kosovo-bound— Rescue groups: US tally misses hundreds left in Afghanistan— US expects to admit more than 50,000 evacuated Afghans— Afghan women demand rights as Taliban seek recognition———— Find more AP coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/afghanistan———HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:KABUL, Afghanistan — Some domestic flights have resumed at Afghanistan’s international airport in Kabul, with

Christopher Vourlias 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 player. “We were so, so excited,” she tells Variety.

Christopher Vourlias Heretic, the Athens-based boutique production company and sales agent, has acquired world sales rights for “Vera Dreams of the Sea,” the feature-length debut of Kosovan director Kaltrina Krasniqi, which will have its world premiere in the Horizons sidebar of the Venice Film Festival.

A total of 47 films will compete at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival across its four competitive sections. The event will feature 18 world premieres and three international premieres.

coronavirus infection on her own taught Arta Jashari how the power of one can offer hope to others and change things for the better.The 32-year-old soprano took it upon herself to treat her father, Baki Bashari — the Kosovo Philharmonic's maestro who suffers from diabetes and a heart ailment — after she discharged him last June from the country's overwhelmed Pulmonological Clinic.Under quarantine, the job was difficult.

Jay Weissberg Rites of passage, teenage girls in small towns, strict and uncomprehending parents: We know the drill, yet few films riffing on the subject get the mood and ambiguities as right as “Looking for Venera.” Debuting feature director Norika Sefa exhibits exceptional talent in bringing subtlety and depth to characters as well as the overall atmosphere of a town in Kosovo, ensuring the story is grounded in a particular place while making her protagonist a readily identifiable, highly

More than 20 years ago, the Kosovo war with Serbia and Montenegro left 12,000 dead and more than 3,000 missing, mainly Kosovar Albanians. In Hive (Zgjoi), her first feature, writer-director Blerta Basholli is inspired by the true story of Fahrije Hoti, a single mother who, many years after her husband goes missing, is forced by economic necessity to face his loss.

Rotterdam Winners This year’s virtual International Film Festival Rotterdam has crowned the winners from its film program. Southern India-set Pebbles by Vinothraj P.S won the Tiger Award, while I Comete – A Corsican Summer by French filmmaker Pascal Tagnati and Looking for Venera by Norika Sefa from Kosovo both won Special Jury Awards.

Jessica Kiang The war in Kosovo ended in 1999, but for many families, its losses and erasures created conflict that lasted deep into the new century, echoing on to this day.

Another day, another load of illegal meat seized at Newark Liberty International Airport. A U.S.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentThe Czech Film and Television Academy has selected Agnieszka Holland’s “Charlatan” to be its official entry in the International Feature Film category of the 93rd Academy Awards.Its decision follows recent submissions by Singapore, Kosovo and Georgia.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentKosovo has selected Visar Morina’s “Exil” as its official entry in the International Feature Film category of the 93rd Academy Awards. It follows submissions by Bhutan, Taiwan, Ukraine, Bosnia, Ivory Coast, Georgia, Luxembourg, Poland and Switzerland.“Exil” had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition and also screened at the Berlinale as part of the Panorama section.

Christopher Vourlias Visar Morina’s “Exile,” a tense psychodrama about a Kosovan pharmacologist in Germany who becomes increasingly paranoid over a series of menacing events, won the top prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival, earning the Kosovo-born German director the Heart of Sarajevo.The award ceremony took place online Thursday night, with Morina winning top honors from a jury led by Academy Award-winning director Michel Hazanavicius (“The Artist”) and comprised of Carlo Chatrian, artistic

Christopher Vourlias Xhafer is a 45-year-old pharmacologist who left Kosovo to live in Germany, where he has a comfortable, middle-class life with his German wife and children. But one day a dead rat mysteriously appears hanging from the garden gate in front of his home, setting off a bizarre series of menacing events.

Christopher Vourlias Rome-based Fandango Sales, the sales arm of Domenico Procacci’s production company Fandango, has scooped up world rights, excluding Spain and Andorra, for “Andromeda Galaxy,” the feature directorial debut of Kosovo filmmaker More Raça, which had its world premiere in competition at the Sarajevo Film Festival.“Andromeda Galaxy” tells the story of Shpëtim (Sunaj Raça, the director’s father and the film’s producer), a down-at-the-heels single father struggling to make ends

Dua Lipa has spoken further about a tweet she posted about the rights of indigenous Kosovar Albanians.The singer recently shared a picture of a map of Albania with its emblem, alongside a sentence which stated that Kosovar Albanians are an indigenous group of people.Lipa, who spent part of her childhood in Kosovo and whose family have Albanian heritage, wrote: “au•toch•tho•nous adjective (of an inhabitant of a place) indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists.”The tweet soon

Ed Meza @edmezavarIn her feature documentary, “Wake Up on Mars,” Swiss-Albanian filmmaker Dea Gjinovci examines the plight of a Kosovar refugee family in Sweden whose two daughters, afflicted by resignation syndrome, lie in a catatonic state.The dissociative syndrome appears to mainly affect children and adolescents as a response to the trauma of forced migration, often due to life-threatening circumstances, and who find themselves in a state of uncertainty regarding their status in a new

Rita Ora wants to make sure all children have an "incredible environment" to "be a kid and grow in". The 'Girls' hitmaker moved to London as a young child when her parents fled her home country of Kosovo to avoid persecution in the early 90s, and has said she's thankful she was able to live her childhood as a "carefree kid", as it has allowed her to "cherish" the memories from her younger years.

A homeless immigrant from Kosovo charged at a cop and repeatedly elbowed him in the face because he had been caught street dealing with 34 bags of cannabis.

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Pop star Rita Ora has detailed the traumatic prejudice she has faced as a refugee from Kosovo. 

A former Royal Marine has made a hard-hitting short film thanking our NHS heroes.

Film Forum in New York City has announced the U.S. theatrical premiere of Seamus Murphy’s film PJ Harvey: A Dog Called Money on March 18.

It's the little indignities that get you. Not that the inciting incident in writer-director Visar Morina's very fine Exil is in any way trivial.

Dua Lipa’s keenly awaited second album will be released in April, the singer has announced.

Manchester United are said to be preparing a £20m offer for Fenerbahce striker Vedat Muriqi before Friday's transfer deadline, reports in Turkey suggest.

Who knew Dua Lipa was a teenage hip-hop head? On Wednesday (Dec. 18), the star revealed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that the first two concerts she ever went to as a teenager growing up in Kosovo were Wu-Tang Clan and 50 Cent."My first-ever show I went to was Method Man and Redman; I was 13," she dished to a bewildered (and impressed) Jimmy Fallon.