Kur po xhirohej një film
When Shooting a Film
Xhanfise Keko and children’s book author Shpresa Vreto tackle Socialist Albania’s taboo subject of divorce. A sensitive child acting in a partisan drama tries to reunite his separated parents. After her husband, documentary filmmaker Endri Keko, was seriously injured in a 1979 car accident, Xhanfise began searching for more serious screen material. Much of When Shooting a Film’s story was drawn from the director’s personal observations of one of her child actors and his fighting parents on the set of Tomka and His Friends.
Director's Biography
Xhanfise Keko
Albanian director Xhanfise Keko (1928-2007) utilized the children’s film genre to express personal concerns not found in the work of her male contemporaries. In the 1950s, Keko studied documentary filmmaking in Moscow. She then spent a decade shooting and cutting newsreels of military parades and communist party conferences. From 1971 to 1984, Keko directed a remarkable run of nearly a dozen features.
Film Selection: Taulanti kërkon një motër (1985) - Një vonesë e vogël (1983) - Kur po xhirohej një film (When Shooting a Film, 1981) - Partizani i vogël Velo (1980) - Tomka dhe shokët e tij (Tomka and His Friends, 1977) - Malësorët pas komisarëve (1976, doc) - Tingujt e luftës (1976) - Qyteti më i ri në botë (The Newest City in the World, 1974) - Mimoza llastica (Spoiled Mimoza, 1973)
Albanian director Xhanfise Keko (1928-2007) utilized the children’s film genre to express personal concerns not found in the work of her male contemporaries. In the 1950s, Keko studied documentary filmmaking in Moscow. She then spent a decade shooting and cutting newsreels of military parades and communist party conferences. From 1971 to 1984, Keko directed a remarkable run of nearly a dozen features.
Film Selection: Taulanti kërkon një motër (1985) - Një vonesë e vogël (1983) - Kur po xhirohej një film (When Shooting a Film, 1981) - Partizani i vogël Velo (1980) - Tomka dhe shokët e tij (Tomka and His Friends, 1977) - Malësorët pas komisarëve (1976, doc) - Tingujt e luftës (1976) - Qyteti më i ri në botë (The Newest City in the World, 1974) - Mimoza llastica (Spoiled Mimoza, 1973)
Spotlight 2019
Xhanfise Keko
Albania 1981
color
61 minutes
Albanian OV with English subtitles
Screenplay Xhanfise Keko, Shpresa Vreto
Cinematography Petraq Lubonja
Editing Shpresa Papapavllo
Sound/Sounddesign Gezim Sula
Music Aleksander Peçi
With Gentian Basha, Viktor Zhusti, Marjeta Ljarja, Violeta Dede, Sokol Angjeli
Production
Kinostudio Shqiperia e re
World Sales
Arkivi Qendror Shtetëror I Filmit
Austrian Premiere
World Premiere
Albanien 1981
Weltpremiere / World Premiere Albanien 1981
Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere
