Gledis Bica is a director, screenwriter, producer and film festival organiser from Tirana.
Beginnings and education
Gledis Bica is a filmmaker from Tirana. In 2006, while still in high school, he made “Drowned Dreams”, about Albanian migrants who died trying to reach Italy. The documentary was selected for DokuFest, ZagrebDox and Glasgow’s human rights film festival. He subsequently studied directing at the Marubi Film Academy, graduating in 2011.
Building a festival and production company
In 2009 he founded First Step Association. In October 2010 he established First Step Film Festival, later renamed KO:SH Film Fest. He was a board member of NISI MASA, the European network of young cinema.
In February 2015 he founded d’ART Production. He directed and produced “The Conversation” (2016) and produced Edinjo Jahaj’s “Shkrepe” and Renis Hyka’s “The Strange Case of Teresita”, both from 2022.
Filmmaking
He participated in Sarajevo Talents’ Script Station in 2020 and 2021. “Until the Sun Sets” was presented at the DokuFest 2025 Short Film Forum. In 2026 he wrote and directed “The Good Cop”, starring Ermal Sadiku, Arben Derhemi and Enisa Hysa.
