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  "description": "Blerta Zeqiri (born 1979) is a film director from Kosovo. Her work primarily focuses on missing people and LGBT rights issues. Zeqiri was born in 1979 in Kosovo and grew up in Suva Reka. As a teen, she was a hip-hop artist in Kosovo. In 1999, her and her family escaped a massacre in their hometown during the Kosovo War; Zeqiri subsequently immigrated that year to France, as a refugee of the war.\n\nIn 2004, Zeqiri co-directed the short film \"Exit\". She directed the short movie \"The Return\" (\"Kthimi\"), which was shot in three days and was about a couple that reunites after the Kosovo War. The film won the Jury Prize in Short Film, International Fiction at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. Her debut feature-length film, The Marriage (\"Martesa\"), was released in 2018 and focused on LGBT rights. The Marriage was directed by Zeqiri and co-written by her and Kreshnik Berisha, her partner. In 2018, Kosovo selected the film as their country's submission for the Oscars' best foreign-language film category. In 2019, she was awarded a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters from France.",
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