Visar Morina is a director and screenwriter from Kosovo with a career in Germany and international cinema.
Background and education
Visar Morina was born in Pristina in 1979. Between 2000 and 2004 he gained film and theatre experience, including as an assistant director at Berlin’s Volksbühne. He studied directing and screenwriting at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, graduating in 2010.
Filmography and recognition
- 2009 — “Der Schübling / Death by Suffocation”, director.
- 2013 — “Of Dogs and Wallpaper”, writer and director.
- 2015 — “Babai”, writer and director; Best Director in Karlovy Vary and Kosovo’s Oscar submission.
- 2020 — “Exile”, writer and director; premiered at Sundance, with the screenplay having received the German Screenplay Award in 2018.
- 2026 — “Shame and Money / Von Scham und Geld”, writer, director and producer.
International career
In 2026, Morina presented “Shame and Money”, an Albanian-language international co-production that includes Albania. The film received the Critics’ Award at the CinEast festival in Luxembourg.
