Antoneta Kastrati

Directing

Antoneta Kastrati

Place of birth

Kosovo

Known for

Directing

Credits

9 titles

Antoneta Kastrati is Kosovo-born writer, director and producer now based in Los Angeles. She is part of the Kosovo New Wave – the first generation of female directors in the country. After surviving the war in the late 1990s, she began making documentary films together with her sister Sevdije, that addressed unexplored issues of post-war society. She was one of eight female directors selected for the Directing Workshop for Women at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Her thesis short film SHE COMES IN SPRING (2013) premiered at Busan International Film Festival and went on to garner several awards. Her debut feature film, ZANA (2019), premiered at Toronto International Film Festival …

Known for

Behind the camera

Zana poster
6.8

Haunted by her long-suppressed past and pressured by family to seek treatment from mystical healers for her infertility, a Kosovar woman struggles to reconcile the expectations of motherhood with a legacy of wartime brutality.

Zana

2019

Zana poster
6.8

Haunted by her long-suppressed past and pressured by family to seek treatment from mystical healers for her infertility, a Kosovar woman struggles to reconcile the expectations of motherhood with a legacy of wartime brutality.

Zana

2019

Lullaby poster
NR

Set amidst the Kosova War in 1999, a teenage girl seeks refuge from a village massacre in a mountain cave, sharing a surreal reunion when her older sister. Inspired by true events.

Lullaby

2011

Lullaby poster
NR

Set amidst the Kosova War in 1999, a teenage girl seeks refuge from a village massacre in a mountain cave, sharing a surreal reunion when her older sister. Inspired by true events.

Lullaby

2011

Weddings and Diapers poster
NR

In this touching and humorous documentary, four Kosovar couples share how they deal with chores, child raising, freedoms and infidelity. How have roles changed and what are the limits to modernity in the sacred union of marriage?

Weddings and Diapers

2007

Weddings and Diapers poster
NR

In this touching and humorous documentary, four Kosovar couples share how they deal with chores, child raising, freedoms and infidelity. How have roles changed and what are the limits to modernity in the sacred union of marriage?

Weddings and Diapers

2007

The Guardian poster
NR

A story about a mountain man and his struggle to save the forests of the Rugova Mountain from over-logging and environmental destruction. As we learn the stories of his youth, growing up in those mountains with his brother, we begin to understand the history behind Fatos’ frustration.

The Guardian

2010

She Comes in Spring poster
NR

A middle-aged father in a Serbian village is visited by a mysterious young woman who forces him to uncover a dark buried secret about his wartime past.

She Comes in Spring

2013

The Lemurian Candidate poster
9.0

Three former college buddies who reunite for a backpacking trip on Mount Shasta to heal old wounds and improve their mental health. The weekend descends into madness and a quest for alien contact after one of them introduces hallucinogens into the mix.

The Lemurian Candidate

2025