Blerta Basholli’s follow-up to her 2021 Sundance winner Hive, Dua, delivers a portrait of a teenage girl’s daily routine as disrupted by the increasing marginalisation she experiences in her own environment during the Kosovo War. The film is set in late 1990s Prishtina, where Kosovar Albanian families live under Serbian police violence and the constant threat of exile. Dua (Pinea Matoshi), thirteen, wants the ordinary freedoms of early adolescence. She wants to belong at school, to understand her changing body and to move through her city without fear.
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