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GIFFONI50 - 18.29 AUGUST / 26-30 DECEMBER

Sections & Films

  • Filters

In 1999, nine-year-old Emmanuel Sanford-Durant and his Washington, D.C. family began to film their daily lives in America's most dangerous neighborhood — just 17 blocks behind...

Category Official Competition
Section GEx Doc
Tipology Documentary

Three actresses, three children’s rooms, 10 days and 2,458 sexual predators. An experiment that shines an urgent light on the taboo subject of the abuse of children on the...

Category Out of competition
Section Special Events
Tipology Documentary, Special Event

A child soldier, craving heroin, with a Kalashnikovs in hand has been involved in more than fifty ISIS wars and conflicts. Balanche is among the first child soldiers to tell his...

Category Official Competition
Section GEx Doc
Tipology Documentary

The film is articulated according to a narrative choice that winds through monothematic chapters, assembling the interviews together (a total of fifteen, selected from more than...

Category Out of competition
Section Special Events
Tipology Documentary, Feature Film, Special Event

Deeply in love with life, Fellini has gone through his existence always looking for its meaning. One hundred years after the birth of the Maestro, born in Rimini on 20 January...

Category Out of competition
Section Special Events
Tipology Documentary, Feature Film, Special Event

Gilead Kahn was 15 and a half years old when he died of cancer on March 1, 2018. Gilead was a very promising soccer player and fought for his life for two years. Gilead...

Category Official Competition
Section GEx Doc
Tipology Documentary

There are over 3 million people in Italy who live with eating disorders. Of these, 2.3 million are teenagers. The documentary tells the first encounter between a group of girls...

Category Out of competition
Section Special Events
Tipology Documentary, Feature Film, Special Event

In the summer of 1982 the director François Truffaut, who was a guest of the Giffoni Film Festival in the company of Fanny Ardant, is kidnapped by the journalist and film buff...

Category Out of competition
Section Special Events
Tipology Short Film, Documentary, Special Event

The documentary unveils the restless life of PietroVivarelli and his kaleidoscopic filmography. He was director of Italian B-Movies of all genres, lyricist of musical successes,...

Category Out of competition
Section Special Events
Tipology Documentary, Feature Film, Special Event

EVENTUALLY WE GROW gives voice to the stories and ideas of the children of Nairobi, narrating their passion for cinema and acting. Masha, a young man who grew up in Dagoretti's...

Category Out of competition
Section Special Events
Tipology Short Film, Documentary, Special Event