Gentian Koçi (born 1979) is an Albanian

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

. He is best known for writing and directing the films '' Daybreak'' and ''

A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On ''A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On'' ( Albanian: ''Një filxhan kafe dhe këpucë të reja veshur'') is a 2022 internationally co-produced drama film written and directed by Gentian Koçi. It is inspired on a real case where 2 deaf brothers suffer ...

'', both were selected as the Albanian entry in the

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at the

90th Academy Awards The 90th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2017, and took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was held on March 4, ...

and the

95th Academy Awards The 95th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), will honor films released in 2022, and is scheduled to take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on March 12, 2023. Comed ...

respectively.

Selected filmography

* '' Daybreak'' (2017) * ''

'' (2022)

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* 1979 births Living people Albanian film directors Albanian screenwriters People from Tirana {{Albania-film-director-stub