Sections & Films
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |