Vera Dreams of the Sea (Vera Andrron Detin)
Vera, a middle-aged woman, is forced to face the raw reality of the deeply-seated gender issues when, after her husband’s suicide, the tendrils of an underworld scheme begin to surface.
Screenplay: Doruntina Basha
Cinematography: Sevdije Kastrati
Editing: Vladimir Pavlovski, Kaltrina Krasniqi
Cast: Teuta Ajdini Jegeni, Alketa Sylaj, Astrit Kabashi, Refet Abazi
Producer: Shkumbin Istrefi
Production: Isstra Creative Factory, Vera Films
Kaltrina Krasniqi
An award-winning Kosovo-based film director working in film, television and digital humanities since early 2000. She graduated in Film Directing from the University of Prishtina in 2004. Her last film Sarabande (2018) premiered in ZagrebDox, won the Best Documentary award in Cinalfama Film Festival and was a nominee in short documentary competition at Camerimage Festival 2018.
MENA Premiere
Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia
Fiction, 2021, Color, 87 min
Albanian
Kaltrina Krasniqi
