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Gentian Koçi

Albanian film director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ37763316 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gentian Koçi (born 1979) is an Albanian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing the films Daybreak and A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On, both were selected as the Albanian entry in the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards and the 95th Academy Awards respectively.

Editorial summary

“Gentian Koçi” enters the record as albanian film director. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gentian, Koçi and Albanian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gentian, Koçi and Albanian.
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Why this record matters

“Gentian Koçi” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gentian, Koçi and Albanian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q37763316. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gentian Koçi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.