Batusha's House

Synopsis

Kadri Batusha is building his tremendous house in the outskirts of Prishtina in Kosovo since 15 years; without any plans, architects or building permits. The architecture of this enormous building, with all its little towers, stairs and mazy corridors is a manifestation of Kadri Batusha's biography: A life story shaped by political activism, prison, migration, the years as an asylum seeker in Switzerland but also the time of war in Kosovo.

Director Biography

Tino Glimmann, born in 1989, grew up in Chur in Switzerland. Jan Gollob, born in 1987, grew up in Zurich in Switzerland. Both studied architecture at ETH Zurich, having a special interest in the perception of space and spatial impacts of transcultural phenomenons like migration – on a big as well as on a small scale. Batusha‘s House is their debut film.