Spoiled Mimoza

Xhanfise
Keko

Woman director Xhanfise Keko is well known in Albania as one of the finest filmmakers and undoubtedly for her work dedicated to the film for kids. She was one of the few Albanian directors to be able in showing her movies in Italy, France, Brasil, Spain, Greece, Turkey, etc During 70es and 80es when Xhanfise Keko created her 11 features, Albania was the closed country in Europe and the artists was compelled to work inside the framework of the communist ideology of that period. But Xhanfise Keko is one of few artists could find a way to cheat the dogma using with intelligence the children point of view which through the universality of their universe made her one of the cinema’s revelations during last decade. The director and film critics Marc Cousins highlighted her as one of most interested woman directors at his acclaimed documentaries “A story of children and film” and lately at the Venice Film Festival premiere “Woman making films”. 1972 – UPRISING IN THE PALACE b / w - 35 minutes 1973 - SPOILED MIMOZA b / w - 40 minutes 1974 - THE NEWEST CITY IN THE WORLD b / w - 52 minutes 1975 - BENI WALKS ON HIS OWN b / w - 74 minutes 1976 - SOUNDS OF WAR color - 84 minutes 1977 - TOMKA AND HIS FRIENDS b / w - 74 minutes 1978 - AFTER THE TRACKS b / w - 86 minutes 1980 - THE YOUNG PARTISAN VELO color - 57 minutes 1981 - WHILE SHOOTING A FILM color - 61 minutes 1982 - A SMALL DELAY color - 43 minutes 1984 - TAULANT WANTS A SISTER color - 72 minutes

Mimoza is a spoiled little girl who receives too much attention from her family. Mimoza has her grandmother ready to indulge her every whim. She continuously sends her friends out of her house, and destroys all their toys. In the end, repented, she is left on her own, with her doll by her side.