Short film
Zana and Miri
Zana dhe Miri
Vlash Droboniku · 1975
Synopsis
Every afternoon, Zana and Miri, two small children, play ball in the garden of their house. Carefree, they keep letting the ball roll into the flowers, which end up damaged. The sun, the fish and the flowers themselves, who speak and act like characters, look on at their mischief. In cut-out paper and drawing, seven minutes on what two children owe to the garden and to those who live in it.
Context
Two authors sign the film and write the screenplay together: Tomi Vaso operates the camera, Vlash Droboniku animates and draws the poster, and the music is by Limoz Dizdari. Droboniku had trained the year before at Animafilm, in Romania. The national film archive today holds the original poster in twenty-six copies. Some two hundred animated films have followed in the country, most of them made under the communist regime.
Who it is for
Seven minutes in colour for the very young; there is nothing to know beforehand, and the image is enough to follow the story.
Prizes and reception
The first Albanian animated film; overviews of the country's cinema begin the history of animation with it.
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