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Early 1990s. Saddam Hussein’s regime puts great pressure on the Kurdish region of Iraq. Two homeless orphan Kurdish brothers, Zana, 7, and Dana, 10, live on the edge of...

Category Out of competition
Section Giffoni50 Review
Tipology Feature Film

County Durham, during the endless, violent 1984 strike against the Thatcher closure of British coal mines. Widower Jackie Elliot and his firstborn, fellow miner Tony, take a dim...

Category Out of competition
Section Giffoni50 Review
Tipology Feature Film

Zain, a Lebanese boy, sues his parents for the “crime” of giving him life. The film follows Zain as he journeys from gutsy, streetwise child to hardened 12-year-old...

Category Out of competition
Section Giffoni50 Review
Tipology Feature Film

1959, Welton Academy, Vermont. The headmaster presents to the students the new English teacher, John Keating, who soon shows he doesn’t approve of the strict school system and...

Category Out of competition
Section Giffoni50 Review
Tipology Feature Film

Frankie, a 9 year-old deaf boy, his mother Lizzie and grandmother Nell move constantly to run away from Lizzie’s abusive ex-husband. Most recently they have arrived in a seaside...

Category Out of competition
Section Giffoni50 Review
Tipology Feature Film

An alien is abandoned on Earth by his companions. The being, shy and kind, is found by Elliott, a boy he soon befriends. Elliott hides him at home, in the suburbs of a Californian...

Category Out of competition
Section Giffoni50 Review
Tipology Feature Film

1943. Germany is occupying France. Fanny (13 y.o.) and her little sisters were sent by their parents to the OSE, a foster home for Jewish children. When the Nazis arrive on...

Category Out of competition
Section Giffoni50 Review
Tipology Feature Film

Abandoned by his mother at the age of six, Malony is constantly in and out of juvenile court. An adoptive family grows around this young delinquent: Florence, a children’s...

Category Out of competition
Section Giffoni50 Review
Tipology Feature Film

Antoine Doinel is a boy who lives with his mother, a careless woman, and his father, a shallow man and only interested in rally races. The only comfort to his solitude is reading...

Category Out of competition
Section Giffoni50 Review
Tipology Feature Film

George Zinavoy is a smart and fatalistic teenage loner. He has made it to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work. He is befriended by Sally Howe, the school...

Category Out of competition
Section Giffoni50 Review
Tipology Feature Film