Blerta Zeqiri (born 1979) is a film director from Kosovo. Her work primarily focuses on missing people and LGBT rights issues.^[1]

Zeqiri was born in 1979 in Kosovo and grew up in Suva Reka.^[1][2] As a teen, she was a hip-hop artist in Kosovo. In 1999, her and her family escaped a massacre in their hometown during the Kosovo War; Zeqiri subsequently immigrated that year to France, as a refugee of the war.^[1][3]

In 2004, Zeqiri co-directed the short film "Exit".^[2] She directed the short movie "The Return" ("Kthimi"), which was shot in three days and was about a couple that reunites after the Kosovo War. The film won the Jury Prize in Short Film, International Fiction at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012.^[3][4] Her debut feature-length film, The Marriage ("Martesa"), was released in 2018 and focused on LGBT rights.^[1] The Marriage was directed by Zeqiri and co-written by her and Kreshnik Berisha, her partner.^[2] In 2018, Kosovo selected the film as their country's submission for the Oscars' best foreign-language film category.^[5]

In 2019, she was awarded a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters from France.^[1]