Dua

  • Blerta Basholli
  • Kosovo
  • Switzerland
  • France
2026
101'
Screening schedule
  • Tuesday, 10 November 2026
  • 15:00
  • Kaptol Boutique Cinema

  • Buy a ticket

  • Tuesday, 10 November 2026
  • 21:00
  • Kaptol Boutique Cinema

  • Buy a ticket

Thirteen-year-old Dua (Pinea Matoshi) is caught in a whirlwind of change. Her body is transforming in tandem with the shifting socio-political landscape of the late 1990s in Pristina, where she lives with her Albanian family. After an incident that deeply shakes her community, she finds herself confronted with new, all-encompassing feelings. In her new film, Blerta Basholli – director of Hive (ZFF 2021), the first Kosovar film to be shortlisted for an Academy Award – weaves the troubles of adolescence together with the atmosphere of fear in Kosovo on the eve of war. Dua had its world premiere in the 65th Critics’ Week at Cannes, where it won the SACD Award.

Language: SQ, SR
Subtitles: HR, EN

Blerta Basholli
Blerta Basholli

Blerta Basholli (Pristina, 1983) graduated in Film Directing from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Pristina, and completed her postgraduate studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Her short films and documentaries have screened at numerous international festivals, including the Sarajevo Film Festival, IFFR, and Dokufest. Her debut feature Hive (ZFF 2021) had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize, the Directing Award, and the Audience Award – the first film in Sundance history to sweep all three prizes in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition – and went on to become the first Kosovar film to be shortlisted for an Academy Award.

Film information

Director: Blerta Basholli

Screenplay: Blerta Basholli, Nicole Borgeat

Cast: Pinea Matoshi, Vlera Bilalli, Kaona Matoshi, Yllka Gashi, Kushtrim Hoxha, Andi Bajgora

Director of photography: Lucie Baudinaud

Editing: Enis Saraçi

Producer: Valon Bajgora, Britta Rindelaub, Thomas Reichlin, Amaury Ovise, Yll Uka, Agon Uka, Jean-Christophe Reymond

Production: Ikonë Studio, ARTE France Cinéma, Kazak Productions, Alva Film

Festivals and awards: 65th Cannes Critics’ Week – SACD Award; Sarajevo Film Festival 2026; Zagreb Film Festival 2026

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