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Less than a month remains before the start of the football championship and the Giffoners, who also follow the most beloved sport in Italy, cheer as they see the ball on the big screen, the dribblings of elusive players. Actually, of female players. THE LIONESS, (Leeuwin is the Italian title), directed by Raymond Grimbergen.
This morning the jurors of the GENERATOR +18 section of the Giffoni Film Festival 2023 will attend in Sala Galileo the screening of the film WE WILL NEVER BELONG written and directed by filmmaker Amelia Eloisa. After spending 3 years writing the screenplay, she directs a feature film for the first time. Her story makes everyone reflect, regardless of their sexual orientation.
"In Boujad, people love things from France. I don't really know why. Maybe it's simply because they come from France". The idea for 13-year-old Karim, an improvised toy seller, committed to helping his father who has also lost his pension, comes from Nadia, whom he met in Morocco. Here he went with his father Messaoud for the holidays, seven years after the death of his mother.
The meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Sala Blu of the Multimedia Valley: “Here, young people engage in something positive.This is how hope for the future is revived”.

The film in competition on July 22, 2023

Saturday, 22 July 2023 08:49
The third day of screenings for Giffoni Film Festival’s jurors will be filled with pieces that will bring together young people from Italy and the rest of the world, to share opinions and reflections with the rest of the group and the artists involved in the scheduled films.
The jurors of the Elements +10 section in the Sala Alberto Sordi attended the screening of the film DANCING QUEEN directed by Aurora Gossé. Young Mina is a kid like many others, at least on the outside. The beauty standards set by society, which require all women to be slim, clash with Mina's harsh reality. Her chubby figure, however, does not prevent her from living a normal and fulfilling life. On the brink of experiencing the most difficult period in the history of human existence, namely the teenage years, Mina's ordinary everyday life is turned upside down by the arrival of a new boy at her school: Edwin alias E.D. Win. In addition to being a handsome boy, he is also very popular on social media with thousands of followers, thanks to his talent as a hip hop dancer. When Mina finds out that the boy has moved to her town, she decides to do everything she can to win him over. The right opportunity to show off before his eyes, is to enter a dance competition, the prize for which is a performance with him. Without a second thought, Mina decides to enter, not considering at all that there is only one thing standing between her and victory: she cannot dance. By the time she realises this, it is too late, and she decides to go ahead with her crazy plan of conquest. The opportunity to spend time with Edwin is all she cares about. Supporting her, it is her grandmother who, to make her granddaughter happy, will give her dance lessons, in view of the upcoming audition. On the day of the audition, Mina's rehearsal is a disaster, so much so that she is picked on by everyone, including the boy she has moved mountains to win over. From this great disappointment, Mina will try to rise from her ashes, not caring about the judgement of others and going forward with her head held high, only doing what her heart is telling her to do, as only a true Dancing Queen can do.

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