Luàna Bajrami

Luàna Bajrami

Born: March 14, 2001
in Ferizaj, Kosovo
Luàna Bajrami-Rahmani (born 14 March 2001) is a French-Kosovar actress and filmmaker. She is known for her roles in the films Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) and School's Out (2018). She made her directorial debut with The Hill Where Lionesses Roar (2020).

Bajrami's family is from Pleshina, a village in the Ferizaj District of Kosovo. When she was seven, the family moved to Créteil, just south of Paris. She first became interested in acting after watching Nicolas Bary's 2008 adaption of Trouble at Timpetill, based on the novel by Henry Winterfeld.

Bajrami's first role was in the 2011 television film Adèle's Choice by Olivier Guignard, where she played an 8-year-old Albanian student whose family was threatened with expulsion. This student finds support from her teacher, played by Miou-Miou. Bajrami had a small role in the 2014 short film 14 Million Screams by Lisa Azuelos. She played the title role in the TV film Marion by Bourlem Guerdjou. Marion was adapted from the eponymous book by Nora Fraisse retracing the Marion Fraisse affair in which a schoolgirl committed suicide following harassment by her fellow students, and first aired on France 3 on September 27, 2016. In an interview with Le Monde, Bajrami reflected that this was the first role in which she felt creative control. She read the book and met with the mother of Marion Fraisse.

Bajrami starred in two more short films: Two Youths Died by Tomasso Usberti, which won third prize from the Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017, and the 2018 film After the Night by Valentin Plisson and Maxime Roux.

She played the role of Apolline, the ringleader of a group of six intellectually gifted students facing off against their substitute teacher (played by Laurent Lafitte) in Sébastien Marnier's 2019 film School's Out, adapted from the eponymous novel by Christophe Dufossé. She was praised for her portrayal of Apolline, with EJ Oakley of The Panoptic stating that "Luana Bajrami is particularly menacing as the verbose and morose Apolline".

Bajrami was praised for her portrayal of Sophie in the 2019 independent French film Portrait of a Lady on Fire. That same year, she played the role of Emma in Cedric Khan's Happy Birthday, which focused on a dysfunctional family reunion.

In 2020, it was announced that Bajrami was making her directorial debut with the film The Hill Where Lionesses Roar. Bajrami was nominated for "Most Promising Actress" at the 2020 César Awards.

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A Difficult Year
Title: A Difficult Year
Character: Antilope
Released: October 18, 2023
Type: Movie
Compulsive spenders Albert and Bruno are in debt up to their necks. While seeking help from community workers to get their lives back on track, they run into a group of young green activists. Lured by the free beer and snacks rather than by the ideals of eco-activists, Albert and Bruno find themselves joining the movement without much conviction.
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A Short Trip
Title: A Short Trip
Character: Mira
Released: August 30, 2023
Type: Movie
Mira and Klodi, a young Albanian couple arrive in Marseille with a crucial mission. As they face a fateful appointment and a room full of waiting men, time is of the essence. As they confront the urgency of their choice, they must also confront the growing need to let go of each other.
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The Land Within
Title: The Land Within
Character: Una
Released: November 18, 2022
Type: Movie
After years of exile, Remo, an orphan, returns to his childhood village in the Balkans. He must help his adoptive cousin, Una, with the exhumation of a mass grave that contains most of their family members buried there during the war. But the bodies reveal family secrets that will make Remo and Una question their past and their future. A film about the possibility of truth in a place that only knows survival.
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Final Cut
Title: Final Cut
Character: Johanna
Released: May 18, 2022
Type: Movie
Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.
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The Hill Where Lionesses Roar
Title: The Hill Where Lionesses Roar
Character: Lena
Released: March 18, 2022
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Kosovo, in an isolated village, three young women find their dreams and ambitions stifled, but nothing can stop them in their quest for independence.
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Happening
Title: Happening
Character: Hélène
Released: November 24, 2021
Type: Movie
France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.
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Title: H24 - 24 Hours, 24 Women, 24 Stories
Released: October 21, 2021
Type: TV
24 short films by 24 female writers, performed by 24 women actors, all based on women’s real life experiences of sexism, harassment and violence. A diversity of female voices and talent from across Europe come together for a series that tackles head on the everyday brutality experienced by women. Conceived by Nathalie Masduraud and Valérie Urrea.
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Ibrahim
Title: Ibrahim
Character: Louisa
Released: June 23, 2021
Type: Movie
When teenage Ibrahim lands his father with an unexpected debt, he resolves to do whatever it takes to make amends and gain his father’s respect.
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Midwife Man
Title: Midwife Man
Character: Léa
Released: June 9, 2021
Type: Movie
Julien takes up his post in a child protection center in an underprivileged neighbourhood. He is soon confronted with the difficulties that make up the daily life of the center's team. During his first consultation, he meets Léa, who has become pregnant as a result of rape.
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French Tech
Title: French Tech
Character: Suzie
Released: January 14, 2021
Type: Movie
Down-on-his-luck, unemployed Alexandre has two months to prove to his wife he can take care of his two young kids and be financially independent. Now, the thing is, although The Box, a user-friendly startup, wants to hire him on pro- bation, the company’s slogan is “No kids!” and Séverine, his future boss, is a short-tempered “killer”. So if Alexandre wants to land the job, he’s bound to lie... Will his meeting with Arcimboldo, an “entrepreneur of himself” and the king of online odd jobs, help the brave, disoriented Alexandre overcome all those challenges?
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The Revelations 2020
Title: The Revelations 2020
Released: January 10, 2020
Type: Movie
This year, 36 actresses are being highlighted by the Revelations Committee of the Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques. Lukas Dhont, a true revelation himself since his first feature film, Girl, was awarded the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. He chose to feature this new generation of talents within a “dance marathon”, these exhausting competitions which took place in the United States during the Great Depression, magnificently immortalized by Jane Fonda in a film by Sydney Pollack in the 60s. Through the artistic vision of Lukas Dhont, it is no longer a question of confrontation, but on the contrary, of solidarity and cohesion. Times are changing... Revelations draw their strength from unity.
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Title: Têtard
Character: Justine
Released: October 6, 2019
Type: TV
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Title: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Character: Sophie
Released: September 18, 2019
Type: Movie
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
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Happy Birthday
Title: Happy Birthday
Character: Emma
Released: September 4, 2019
Type: Movie
A mother of two gathers her loved ones to celebrate her birthday in her big house near the Loire Valley. The festivities are disrupted by the arrival of her daughter, who is known for her unpredictable outbursts.
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School's Out
Title: School's Out
Character: Apolline
Released: August 31, 2018
Type: Movie
Pierre Hoffman joins a prestigious school as a substitute teacher and soon notices, among some of his students, an unjustified hostility and a spark of violence in their eyes. Is it because the unspeakable tragedy they have just experienced? Is it because they seem to be extraordinarily gifted children? Is it because they have lost all hope for the future? From curiosity to obsession, Pierre will try to unlock their secret.
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After the Night
Title: After the Night
Character: Anastasia
Released: February 1, 2018
Type: Movie
The day before she is due to arrive in a closed educational facility where she must serve out her sentence, sixteen-year-old Anastasia escapes from her tutor. While she's on the run, she encounters a woman who suggests that Anastasia stays at her place for the night. At break of day, Anastasia must choose.
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Two Youths Died
Title: Two Youths Died
Released: May 26, 2017
Type: Movie
In a wild landscape, Vera and Matteo live their first date of love. The girl's father surprises them and assaults the boy. At the end of a fierce fight, Matteo knocks down man. Vera asks the boy to take her to dance.
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Marion, 13 ans pour toujours
Title: Marion, 13 ans pour toujours
Character: Marion
Released: September 27, 2016
Type: Movie
The real story of Marion Fraisse, who committed suicide at the age of 13 after being viciously and repeatedly bullied by her classmates.
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14 Million Screams
Title: 14 Million Screams
Character: Louise
Released: March 6, 2014
Type: Movie
The movie is called 14 Millions Screams because 14 millions young girls are forced to be married every year. As of today 700 Million women were married before the age of 15. I hope that with this movie everybody can imagine their own children and realize how those screams are not bearable anymore.
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Welcome, Kaniusha
Title: Welcome, Kaniusha
Character: Kaniousha
Released: October 4, 2011
Type: Movie
A teacher goes the distance to help a new student whose family is threatened with deportation.