SARABANDE

Synopsis

Sarabande started as a personal documentary on the classical music virtuoso Petrit Çeku who back in 2014 was about to record the Bach Cello Suites in Spain. But then it became a road movie on borders and illegality, to later be wrapped up into a journey of two friends traveling between the invented ideas of Orient and Occident, past and future.

Director Biography

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 Kosovo Oral History Initiative – an online platform where personal histories of individuals from various paths of life are recorded and published, and a co-founder of the popular Prishtina café-bookshop Dit’ e Nat’; a non formal setting for promotion of film, literature and music. She 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 her professional development in the University of California, Los Angeles -UCLA- Extension focusing on Film Producing. Currently she is in production of her first feature film “Vera Dreams of the Sea”.