Vera Dreams of the Sea

Vera Dreams of the Sea (2025)

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Vera is a middle-aged sign language interpreter, whose life is disrupted by her husband's suicide who has to face the raw reality of going against the deep-seated gender issues of our times.

Date of release
2025-07-24
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Director
Kaltrina Krasniqi

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: €430K

Vera Dreams of the Sea is a 2021 drama film directed by Kaltrina Krasniqi, in her feature film debut and stars Teuta Ajdini Jegeni as Vera, a woman dealing with the aftermath of her husband's death.

Production

In 2014, screenwriter Doruntina Basha met with her childhood friend, director Kaltrina Krasniqi for the first time in fifteen years and brought with her a draft script of Vera Dreams of the Sea. Krasniqi was shocked at the similarities between the character of Vera and her own mother's life experiences, and became interested in the film.

Casting for the character of Vera took over a year, with auditions taking place in Skopje, Pristina and Tirana. Director Krasniqi later stated that she had difficulty casting the role due to the lack of Albanian speaking actresses of the appropriate age, which she believed was due to women from that generation having "not been encouraged to study or practise the arts".

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