Vera is a middle-aged sign language interpreter, who leads a well-structured life: a wife to a renowned judge, a supportive mother, and a caring grandmother. Her serene life is disrupted by her husband’s suicide followed by an unwelcome, menacing parade of men who claim to have ownership over their village family house. When the tendrils of an underworld scheme begin to surface, Vera’s world will face danger and seem ready to collapse. Fear and mistrust will force Vera to take the family’s fate into her own hands. An intimate yet universal portrait of a woman, who has to face the raw reality of going against the deep-seated gender issues of our times. A film that unveils a merciless postwar society entangled in corruption, where women can only be collateral damage of yet another highway in the making.
Vera Dreams of the Sea
Vera andrron detin
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- Direction: Kaltrina Krasniqi
- Script: Doruntina Basha
- Cinematography: Sevdije Kastrati
- Editing: Vladimir Pavlovski, Kaltrina Krasniqi
- Sound: Igor Popovski, Darko Spasovski
- Music: Petrit Çeku, Genc Salihu
- Actors: Teuta Ajdini, Alketa Sylaj, Astrit Kabashi, Refet Abazi
- Production: Isstra Creative Factory, Vera Films
- Producers: Shkumbin Istrefi
- Co-production: Dream Factory, Papadhimitri Film Production
- Co-producers: Ognen Antov, Klajdi Papadhimitri, Kaltrina Krasniqi
- Costumes: Albulena Borovc
- Production Design: Burim Arifi, Blendina Xhema
- Make Up: Fiona Abdullahu
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Kosovo*, North Macedonia, Albania
- Production Year: 2021
- Duration: 87'
- Contact: Heretic
* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSC Resolution 1244/1999 and the ICJ opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence
Kaltrina Krasniqi
Kaltrina Krasniqi is an award-winning, Kosovo-based film director and media specialist working in film, television, and online publishing since 2001. She is a founding member of the Kosovo Oral History Initiative – an online archive where personal histories of individuals from various paths of life are recorded and published. She also co-founded a popular Prishtina café-bookshop Dit’ e Nat’ – a non-formal setting for the promotion of film, literature, and music. Kaltrina graduated in Film Directing in the University of Prishtina in 2004 and in 2011 completed her MA in Kosovo’s Institute for Journalism and Communication. In 2015, she continued working on her expertise, following studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, focusing on Film Producing.
Filmography
2000 Sudden Air (short)
2003 Relax (short)
2003 Silentio (short)
2009 Family Portray (short)
2009 Tatita (short)
2012 Rolling to Brussels
2014 The Canaries Know (short)
2018 Sarabande (short)
2021 Vera Dreams of the Sea
