Xheni Alushi

Director, Screenwriter, Editor, Producer, Location Sound Mixer

Born in 1991 in Tirana, Albania. She moved to Basel in 2014, where she studied at the HGK (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst). Her first short EVA (2018) screened in competition at the Pardi di Domani in Locarno. Parallel to her Master studies in directing at ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts), she works as well as a set electrician at Leuchtturm Filmbeleuchtung. THE DISPARAGED is her fourth short.

Filmography
(a selection)

Director

2026
The Disparaged by Xheni Alushi
2025
Njerëzit by Xheni Alushi, Garrick J Lauterbach
2023
Combox by Xheni Alushi
2018
Eva by Xheni Alushi

Screenwriter

2026
The Disparaged by Xheni Alushi
2018
Eva by Xheni Alushi

Editor

2018
Eva by Xheni Alushi

Location Sound Mixer

2024
Clementine by Kim Gabbi

Producer

2018
Eva by Xheni Alushi
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