Talent Guide

Dea Gjinovci

  • Discipline:Director, Producer
  • Program Year:Documentary Lab 2019

Bio

Dea Gjinovci is a talented Swiss-Albanian documentary filmmaker with a background in economics and anthropology living in between Paris, London and Geneva. Her award-winning documentary short Sans le Kosovo won Best National Film at Dokufest International Film Festival, prizes at the Global Migration Film Festival and Festival Cine Zaragoza in 2017. It was screened at Porto Post Doc, This Human World and many other international film festivals. Her debut feature-length hybrid documentary Re?veil sur Mars (Mars in English) is co-produced by Radio Te?le?vision Suisse and France 2 as well as supported by the Centre National du Cine?ma (CNC, France), l’Office fe?de?ral de la Culture (OFC), Cineforom (Switzerland), the UBS Foundation and the Sundance Film Institute. Mars won the “Perspectives d’un doc” pitch award at Visions du Re?el 2018. It is currently in post-production. Dea is a 2019 Film Independent Fellow.

Current Project

Mars

Logline

Furkan, 10, is the youngest in his family. His sisters, Ibadeta and Djeneta have been in a coma for several years, victims of the «syndrome of resignation». Traumatized, their minds and bodies mysteriously went to sleep. In central Sweden, his whole family is trying to rebuild a normal life, far from their native Kosovo. But so far, their asylum applications have been refused one after the other. Furkan tries to escape this situation by building his own spaceship to fulfill his dream: to go live on Mars and save his sisters.