Shkumbin Istrefi
Biography
Shkumbin Istrefi was born on February 12, 1969 in Pristina. His family originates from Veleshta in Struga, Macedonia. He studied acting at the Faculty of Arts in Prishtina and graduated in 1994. He has played in many plays at the Dodona Theater and the National Theater in Pristina. On July 15, 2011, as an actor, he was appointed to the Governing Council of the National Theater of Kosovo.
Shkumbin Istrefi lindi më 12 shkurt, 1969 në Prishtinë. Familja e tij ka prejardhjen nga Veleshta e Strugës së Maqedonisë. Studimet e aktrimit i kreu ne Fakultetin e Arteve në Prishtinë dhe diplomoi ne vitin 1994. Ka luajtur në shumë shfaqje në teatrin Dodona dhe në Teatrin Kombetar në Prishtinë. Më 15 korrik 2011, si aktor, i jepet posti në Këshillin Drejtues të Teatrit Kombëtar të Kosovës.
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Education
Work & Experience
Role: Dalip Huna
Director: Genc Berisha
Production Type: Film
As their city is occupied by a new organized crime boss, three local gangsters decide to return from Mexico and fight him in a mouse and cat game.
Role: Mentor Pirulli
Production Type: Film
Pirulli family is just an ordinary family living in Prishtina, Kosovo. But a dark, mysterious, and brutal past, comes back to haunt them and everyone around.
Role: Azem
Production Type: Film
"Prespav", a boardinghouse in the Prespa region of Macedonia, represents a metaphor for the real social developments in the country, the intrinsic Balkan mentality, and the struggle of the characters from which they cannot escape.
Role: Xhinga
Director: Kushtrim Bekteshi
Production Type: Film
The quiet and ordinary life of a forgotten village changes dramatically when three prostitutes arrive at the village bar.
Role: Syla
Director: Arzana Kraja
Production Type: Film
Syla, a tortured former political prisoner from Kosova, realizes that his political idealism destroyed his life. After twenty years of mundane life in London, he returns home to confront his troubled past.
Role: Taxi Driver
Director: Edon Rizvanolli
Production Type: Film
A lonely boy, who lives in Amsterdam with his refugee mother from Kosovo, keeps getting into trouble while yearning for her acceptance. But the traumas caused by the war, which his mother hides away from him, turn his world upside down.
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