Samir Karahoda is a Kosova-based photographer, cinematographer, and director, his last film “Displaced”, is playing in the Shorts Documentary section at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Alissa Xhixhabesi is a writer and filmmaker, studying Media and Film at The New School in New York.
Join us as we convene Lea Ypi, Andrew Moravcsik, and Margaret Talbot for spirited conversation on Lea’s memoir “Free” and its major themes.
Over the years, Igli Mezini says, everything became much more real and so did the claims for more and more. This was my beginning.
Not many of us get to live to see our own legacy play out in such a meaningful, remarkable way. Bob Dole did.
Iliria approached us when we entered the compound, curious of the strangers that were visiting the empty site. She immediately rushed to tell us her story as a camp survivor. A story she felt was missing into the void.
Petrit Halilaj was 13 years old when Serbian troops moved into his Kosovar village, forcing his family to flee and then burning their house to the ground.
Basholli’s debut feature film Hive (2021), which follows a single mother in the aftermath of the war in Kosovo, broke Sundance records where she swept the Grand Jury Prize, the Directing Award, and the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic category, becoming the first film in the history of the Sundance Film Festival to do so.