Sami is an award wining independent documentary director, cinematographer, writer and editor. He is a founder of Romawood, Rolling Film Festival in Kosovo (acting as artistic director and International Romani Film Commission fostering Roma Cinema in Europe). He is also a film tutor that gives opportunity to young Roma people to learn and to express other Roma lives, experience and identity through artistic methods, producing documentary films. Sami made his first film as a trainee in 2003 in Plemetina village in Kosovo, where the native of this town learned the techniques of film making with Balkan Sunflowers NGO. Sami has produced more than twenty documentaries, docu-fiction, and music videos on Roma culture, art, human rights and social life at the European level. One of his films "Road to Home", was screened at Cannes Film Festival in 2007; it was the only Kosovar film presented. In 2012 he moved to Lyon, France.
Kosovo