Lendita Zeqiraj

{{short description|Kosovan film director}}

Lendita Zeqiraj is a film director from Kosovo.

She was born in Prishtina, Kosovo..{{cite web |last1=Marí |first1=Cristina |title=Lendita Zeqiraj: Until now, nobody has shown women in film as they are |url=https://kosovotwopointzero.com/en/lendita-zeqiraj-until-now-nobody-has-shown-women-in-film-as-they-are/ |website=Kosovo 2.0 |accessdate=31 July 2020 |date=27 December 2018}}

In 2008, she released the short film Balcony.{{cite web |last1=Boyce |first1=Laurence |title=Karlovy Vary 2019: Lendita Zeqiraj on the energetic, emotional 'Aga's House' |url=https://www.screendaily.com/features/karlovy-vary-2019-lendita-zeqiraj-on-the-energetic-emotional-agas-house/5140788.article |website=Screen Daily |accessdate=31 July 2020 |language=en |date=30 June 2019}} In 2018, her short film Fence ("Gardhi") won Best International Short Film at DokuFest.{{cite web |last1=Türker |first1=Murat |title=Uzak Evren ve Meteorlar'a DokuFest'ten Ödül |url=https://m.bianet.org/bianet/sanat/199915-uzak-evren-ve-meteorlar-a-dokufest-ten-odul |website=bianet |accessdate=31 July 2020 |language=Turkish |date=12 August 2018}} It also won Best Narrative Short at the Hamptons International Film Festival and the New Orleans Film Festival.{{cite web |title=Awards and Jurors |url=https://neworleansfilmsociety.org/awards/#2018-noff-jury-award-winners |website=New Orleans Film Society |accessdate=31 July 2020 |date=2018}}{{cite web |title=HIFF 2018: Awards |url=https://hamptonsfilmfest.org/hiff-2018-awards/ |website=Hamptons Film Fest |accessdate=31 July 2020}}

Her debut feature film, Aga's House, is about a young boy looking for his father and about trauma and rape survivors, set after the Kosovo War.{{cite web |last1=Vourlias |first1=Christopher |title='Aga's House' Director Lendita Zeqiraj on Kosovo's Hidden Trauma, Healing |url=https://variety.com/2019/film/global/agas-house-lendita-zeqiraj-kosovo-1203255666/ |website=Variety |accessdate=31 July 2020 |language=en |date=28 June 2019}}