Blerta Basholli ’s second feature film “Dua” has just had its world premiere on May 13 during Cannes’ Critics’ Week. It follows Basholli’s film “Hive,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2021, becoming the festival’s only film to ever win the Grand Jury Prize, directing and the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Set in late 1990’s Kosova during the war, ‘Dua,’ a coming-of-age film follows 13-year-old Dua, who has to deal with the ongoing reality of war and the growing pains of becoming a young woman. As she navigates the daily violence and the possibility of having to leave her beloved country, Dua must learn how to protect herself physically and emotionally from the constant barrage of challenges thrown at her. Born in Kosova, Basholli explains that the film is semi-autobiographical: “Most of the scenes in the film are based on what I experienced and what happened to me.…