A Kosovar writer and director, born in 1979 in Kosovo. In 2009, he graduated from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, where his diploma film was the short Death by Suffocation. His short film Of Dogs and Wallpaper was selected in the official competition at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2013. Father (2015), his first feature film, was presented by Kosovo to represent it in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars. It also won Best Director at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2015.