“In these young people’s eyes I see the same passion for cinema that I had as a child. There is so much love here that I can truly feel the privilege of being an actress”. These were the words that Jessica Chastain, a true giffoner, used to reciprocate the warm embrace of the Giffoni jurors in 2013.

The films, the winners, the guests and more of the GFF 43rd edition

Every year Giffoni Experience offers the opportunity for many young people to discover the wonders of the world and participate in cultural events through its appointments and its international collaboration. From October 3rd to 12th Giffoni will be in Iran for the 27th edition of International Film Festival for Children and Young Adults organized by Farabi Cinema Foundation, which this year will take place in Tehran and Isfahan. The collaboration with Iran is one of the historical one of Giffoni, dating back to 1974. Two italian jurors, Antonio and Sara, respectively from Montecorvino Rovella and Giffoni Valle Piana, accompanied by one of the staff members of Giffoni, Gianvincenzo Nastasi, will share the experience with other kids from all over the world in a full immersion Iranian cinema. An opportunity to broaden their horizons and to experience a unique and unforgettable trip in a country so rich in history and traditions.           info@http://icff.ir/27th/en/

A tribute to Walt Disney Company, that has been arousing emotions and entertaining kids and adults since 1923. Today - 28th July - at Sala Alberto Sordi, starting from 15 to 19, in fact, three classical animation pictures, produced by the most important kids entertainment company, will be screened.   The marathon will start with Peter Pan, 14th Disney classic film, that hit the theatres in 1953. Based on James Matthew Barrie’s novel, the movie tells the extraordinary story of Wendy and her three little brothers, who fly side by side with Peter Pan, the kid who never gets old, and the fairy Tinker Bell towards Neverland.   Later on, The Jungle Book by Wolfgang Reitherman. Cartoons aficionados will be captivated by the soundtrack that was nominated for an Academy Award, back in 1968, especially the unforgettable song titled "The Bare Necessities", sung by the protagonist Mowgli and the irresistible bear Baloo. Loosely based on Rudyard Kipling’s novel, the story of the orphan boy raised by the panther Bagheera, has moved many generations since it was released in 1967.   Another timeless fairy tale will close the marathon: The Aristocats by Wolfgang Reitherman, released in 1971. We’ll see the adventures of Duchess and her puppies Berlioz, Toulouse, Marie and the irresistible alley cat Thomas O'Malley, that will have to deal with the greedy and evil butler Edgar.

The epic journey of the young demigod Percy Jackson continues; in order to achieve his mission, the idol of kids has stopped over Sala Truffaut at Cittadella del Cinema, in Giffoni Valle Piana. In fact, on 23th July the spotlights are on the preview, restricted to +13 +16 and +18 jurors: “Percy Jackson- Sea of Monsters”. Based on Rick Riordan’s best seller, the second installment to the saga keeps on showing the young demigod’s adventure towards the fulfillment of his destiny. In order to save the world, Percy and his friends must find the legendary and chained Golden Fleece. Going down a dangerous path into the unexplored Sea of Monsters, known to mortals as the Bermuda Triangle, our heroes have to face frightening creatures, a horde of zombies, and the supreme Evil. A long - awaited event, for which the film’s two protagonists, Logan Lerman and Alexandra Daddario, walked the Gff Blue Carpet: they also met the jurors, chatted and signed autographs.

On 18th July the Black Pearl arrives at Giffoni Experience! The light hearted character Jack Sparrow – made famous by Johnny Depp – and his cruise arrive at Cinema Citadel with their infamous misadventures. Waiting for the fifth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean saga – Disney announced that will start filming it at the end of the year – Giffoni Experience has set a special event for Jack Sparrow’s fans. In effect, there will be a special and free admittance film marathon from 15:00 to 01:30 at Sala Lumière. It consists of the no-stop screening of all Pirates of the Caribbean films in original version (Italian subtitles):     PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (2003, 143’)   PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST (2006, 151’)   PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END (2007, 169’)   PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (2011, 137’)

GIFFONI EXPERIENCE: GETTING YOUNGER 43RD EDITION: FROM 19TH TO 28TH 2013     PRESS RELEASE 3rd July 2013 THE SELECTION 150 WORKS IN PROGRAMME: 75 LONG FILMS AND 84 SHORT FILMS SELECTED AMONG 2500 MOVIES IN PRE-SELECTION (IN CONTEST AND OUT OF CONTEST) + SERIES TV, TEASERS E DOCUMENTARIES     THE GIURY 3300 KIDS FORM THE AGE OF 3 TO 23 COMING FORM 41 NATIONS AND 160 ITALIAN CITIES     THE TALENTS GIOVANNI ALLEVI, DARIO ARGENTO, MARCO E PIERGIORGIO BELLOCCHIO, FABRIZIO BIGGIO, BARBORA BOBULOVÁ, MARCO BOCCI, GABRIELE CAPRIO, FRANCESCA CAVALLIN, JESSICA CHASTAIN, SACHA BARON COHEN, ALEXANDRA DADDARIO, ALESSANDRO GASSMAN, GIANCARLO GIANNINI, LOGAN LERMAN, FRANCESCO MANDELLI, LUCIA MASCINO, MARCELLO MASI, MINO CAPRIO, ENZO MONTELEONE, FILIPPO NIGRO, RUGGERO PASQUARELLI, MAX PEZZALI, NAYA RIVERA, STEFANIA ROCCA, GIULIANO SANGIORGI, ROBERTO SAVIANO, ALESSANDRO SIANI, MIRA & PAUL SORVINO, FIUMANÒ DOMENICO VIOLI     PREVIEW MONSTERS UNIVERSITY, L’ULTIMO GOAL, TEEN BEACH MOVIE, MONSTER HIGH 13 DESIDERI, TITEUF - IL FILM, PERCY JACKSON E GLI DEI DELL’OLIMPO: IL MARE DEI MOSTRI, MOOD INDIGO-LA SCHIUMA DEI GIORNI, ECO PLANET-UN PIANETA DA SALVARE, JURASSIC PARK 3D, JUSTIN E I CAVALIERI VALOROSI, I PUFFI 2     SPECIAL EVENTS CINEMA MARATONA PIRATI DEI CARAIBI, VIOLETTA, BELLE E SEBASTIEN, GIOVANI RIBELLI-KILL YOUR DARLING, TARZAN, MARATONA CLASSICI DISNEY, MIDNIGHT SUN, LA CANTATA DEI PASTORI     GIFFONI MUSIC EXPERIENCE: THE BEST OF RAP AND ITALIAN POP MUSIC RENZO ARBORE, BABY K, BANDABARDÒ, CHIARA, CLEMENTINO, ELIO E LE STORIE TESE, ELHAIDA DANI, ENSI, FEDEZ, FRANCESCA MONTE, MAX GAZZÈ, GUE PEQUENO, ANTONIO MAGGIO, FIORELLA MANNOIA, ‘NTO, SALMO. And also:  Shows dedicated to Brazil and shows with '80 music      GIFFONI E NEAPOLIS FOR CITTÀ DELLA SCIENZA BEATRICE ANTOLINI, FAINTING BY NUMBERS, FIBER GLASS, I USED TO BE A SPARROW, KINGS OF CONVENIENCE, LIPRANDO, MOTOSEGA, SOVIET SOVIET, TENSNAKES, TRICKY, UNHAPPY, E ALTRI…     GIFFOENTERTAINMENT: ART, THEATER, EXTRA. 200 SHOWS AROUND THE VILLAGE 100 EXHIBITINGS, 120 STREET SHOWS, MUSICALS, THEATRE AND PUPPETS, 80 DATES WITH GAMES AND ANIMATION ALL AROUND THE VILLAGE    Naples,3rd July 2013 -  Giffoni heats up the the engines, reawakens faith, gives strength, promotes happiness. From 19th to 28th July many initiatives, little and big, for a 43rd edition capable of welcoming thounsands of boys and girls, people, stories, dreams, adventures, hope from every corner of the world. Times change, generations change but Giffoni's mission is firmly grounded to the roots of its existence: keeping intact the values of its global and local mission, capable of telling about millions of people and of being the place and the amplifier for individuals. The theme chosen for this edition is FOREVER YOUNG - PER SEMPRE GIOVANI, inside and out, with love of life, able to contaminate millions of people in this long, hostile and dramatic moment especially for the younger generations.     “Giffoni 43 has many programs, initiatives, little and big– Claudio Gubitosi, Giffoni Experience managing director, said- a group of colourful and mixed lights, of sounds from different areas, of bearers of emotions who want to find in Giffoni a gist to join them to other emotions. Giffoni Experience is a social happening, a phenomenon, and many other things. It’s shared with those who want to live it, those who desire it, who love it, who think it and even organize it. The statistics rank us high everywhere and we are satisfied and proud but at the same time we feel responsible. A warm thanks  goes to the many directors in competition, all of them great, many at their first experience at the festival, the majors and with their peack movies that find in Giffoni the ideal place to propose and promote thier production, the artists that will tell about their experiences to the Materclass kids, the National and International talents. A special thanks goes to the governament regional and local institutions whose support is fundamental for the project complexity, that is necessary, unique and socially and economically useful”.   “We are talking about a big event that, quoting this year’s edition theme, is Forever Young.” These are the words of the Campania Regional President Stefano Caldoro about Giffoni Experience: “We strongly count on this made in Campania excellence, that this year will engage 3.300 kids coming from 41 Nations. Extraordinary numbers for a cultural initiative that is admired and loved by the whole world”, states the president.       THE THEME The 43rd edition theme is Forever Young – Per sempre giovani. After 43 years Giffoni Experience is younger then ever and it wants to stay this way through the dialogue and the continous discovery of what is new. A theme, chosen and shared with the Gff comunity kids, which represents a wish full of ideals. A dreamer’s hope. A vigorous promise. A fire crafted will. A declaration of intent of the way we understand the Giffoni experience. Forever young is an opening for everyone. For everyone who wants to feel alive, regardless of the age.   THE JURIES 3.300 young kids from the age of 3 to 23, coming from 41 nations and 160 Italian cities: these are the numbers of the 43rd edition jurors. Childern and kids will live 10 days together – some will for the first time, some others already have for several years. And they will share the “unique” experience of the festival. This  year more than ever the applications to enter the jury have been so many. Over 20 thousands admission applications, mostly thanks to the web that has made the dialogue between Giffoni and the kids more direct and straightforward. For what concerns the jurors coming from abroad, the new entries are: Cyprus and Georgia. After a few years of absence, the kids form Egypt, Belgium, Australia and Greece are also coming back. Giffoni is an experience shared 365 days a year in a continuous and enduring relationship with its fans and jurors. It was them who chose some of the protagonists of this edition, through the polls on social networks, putting them on the front line in the management of an event that stays unique: the Festilval of the cinema for kids made for kids.   SECTIONS AND MOVIES The cinematographic programme provides 150 movies of which some are long and others short, some are in the competition and others out of it, selected among 2500 productions of 90 countries. The sections in competition are: Elements+3 (from 3 to 5 years), Elements +6 (from 6 to 9 years), Elements+10 (from 10 to 12 years), Generator+13 (from 13 to 15 years), Generator+16 (from 16 to 17 years), Generator+18 (from 18 years on). This years’ news is the selection of short films in contest MasterclassShort Films. The sections out of competition are: Reload/Parental Control ( some of the best movies already distributed in Italy. All certified by Giffoni!), Italian Cinema Forever Young (a selection of young and bubbly italian short films), Focus on Macedonia ( the best of Macedonian cinema for Kids), Focus on Belgian Animation: Les Film du Nord ( selection of animation movies by the Films du Nord production). ELEMENTS +3 - 16 animated feature films coming from 12 nations, realized by using different techinques for a selection that mixes tradition and innovation. Many dates and big room is made for respect towards nature and the animals, recurring subjects for many shorts: A SEA TURTLE STORY,CAT IN THE BAG,HEDGEHOGS AND THE CITY,MY STRANGE GRANDFATHER,STOP LET’S CHANGE OUR FUTURE. ELEMENTS+6 (feature lengh films)– Adventure, action, fanstastic journeys and a big presence, as usual of Germany and northern countries in this selection: V8 – START YOUR ENGINIES! (Germany),NIKO2- LITTLE BROTHER;BIG TROUBLE (Finland),THE FAMOUS FIVE 2(Germany),JOURNEY TO THE CHRISTMAS STAR(Norway). But also more intimate movies that deal with much more complex themes in a measured and kind way. The Austrian A HORSE ON THE BALCONY in which the young protagonist has Asperger Syndrome, the Chinese I SWAN in which a little girl is able to face the loss of her mother thanks to the discovery of a swan in need of help. Finally, the Iranian THE PEARL: in a coast village two kids, children of a pearlfisher, have to find a way to help their father who needs an expensive heart surgery. ELEMENTS+10 (feature lengh films)– Stories from different latitudes to recount pre- teenagers’ anxieties, dreams and great expectations. In BEKAS we follow the impossibile American dream of two Iraqi children. MIKE SAYS GOODBYE! It’s, instead, the story of two young Dutch that deal with the illness and their parents’ reassuring absence, but also with the discovery of how deep their friendship can be. In THE GREEN UMBRELLA we find ourselves in an Iranian wood ( real and symbolic place) with the young protagonist who has to face “ the forest” of conflicting feelings caused by his parents’ split. The German RICKY- THREE’ S A CROWD is the story of a moment of choice and transformation for the young protagonist who deals with the first love and with his father’s dramatic working situation. The magic and torn apart Africa is depicted through the eyes of the very young protagonist ofHORIZON BEAUTIFUL: the dream of becoming a great football player and the arrive of the European talent scout seems a precious chance to exploit. We find Alpine landscapes in the Swiss thriller CLARA AND THE SECRET OF THE BEARS and in the Italian LA STORIA DI CINO, IL BAMBINO CHE ATTRAVERSò LE MONTAGNE. In the former the protagonist has to find out the secret that hides behind the strange visions that have been torturing her since she moved to a new house. In the latter we go back in time to find out the very hard life of children forced to work far from home in order to help their families.   GENERATOR +13 (feature lengh films) – Generator +1 has the most  heterogeneous and articulated selection that ever happened. Seven themes for seven movies, like different pieces of a puzzle shaped like a generational panorama – that of pre teenagers- threatened by fears, distress, social and existential problems, but also run through by a wind of hope and desire. In the Taiwanese TOUCH OF LIGHT, a true story produced by the brilliant and visionary Wong Kar Way, the physical handicap is faced with the lightness and the determination of someone who has ispiration to guide him and love, friendship to protect him. A moving story, without slush. In another case, instead- we are talking about the Dutch REGRET- the “problematic body” becomes an insurmountable obstacle to the achievement of happiness and it causes the dark evil of school bullying taken to extreme dramatic consequences. In the Turkish Huseyin Tabak’s debut movie – YOUR BRAUTY WORTHS NOTHING an Austrian production- the problem of the integration of the “foreign boy” in a contest that appears to be rejecting and punishing is told in a prospective that is constantly careful to its twelve year old protagonist’s look. Actual and lively theme – that of social and cultural integration -  which like an earthquake goes through the new European order, more and more a croassroad of people and different Countries. Not less interesting is the “thematic” matter that can be imagined about the American THE INCREDIBLE DEFEAT OF MISTER AND PETE  that can count on the executive production and on the music of a pop-soul star like Alicia Keys, on a front-rank cast among which Jennifer Hudson stands out (Golden Globe for “Dreamgirls”) and on an important direction. But the movie strong point is the story: hard, difficult, real and authentic like the degraded life, but lived with extreme strength and dignity, by the two younger protagonists forced to fight in a cruel America, where the parental figures shattered because of the misery. Hard life, suburban life the one told by the other debut movie that takes part in the contest: the French movie ASPHALT PLAYGROUND. The director focuses on the “invisible minority”, on those people that want their children far from the temptations of a suburban life made of drugs, violence and easy money, never hiding the violence and the drama that nestles in many very human events. There’s struggle in the movie BLACK DIAMOND as well, by using a documentary overlook it unveils that sort of contemporary “ slave trade” which is the savage, ruthless, very lucrative enrolment of young Africans who have their head filled with dreams of glory and are ready to any sacrifice in order to become the new stars of the world football. A baffling work that finally puts the salt in the painful and open wound of a society, the European one, that defines itself as civil, but that reveals to be barbarian for the way it swallows and spits so much youth full of dreams. Finally WINDSTORM flying the German flag.  Among the movies in contest this one is the most delicate and the closest to the the classical dynamics of the story for kids a sit is regarded in a traditional sense. The dream, the growth, the relationship with the nature and the animals in a work that  raises the “female quota” avarage for the GENERATOR+13, this year dominated by male protagonists without any doubt.    GENERATOR+16 (feature lengh films) - A journey to the discovery of emotions, passions, dreams in the difficult passage between adolescence to adulthood. The search for one’s own true identity in a generation that changes and crashes with the reality it lives. These are the themes proposed in the Generator+16 section. The protagonist of BEFORTE SNOWFALL, a road movie that crosses Europe form East to West, is a very young Kurd in his desperate and very dangerous jorney hot on the trail of his older sister. His mission consists in killing the girl in order to give the lost honour back to his family. As a matter of fact his sister ran away with a man who was not her betrothed one, and she has shamed her father and only her death will make up for it. The discovery of love, the pain and the hard lessons given by the street, unexpected meetings will supply borders that will reveal themselves to be even more difficult to overcome than the geographical ones.  In the picture LES APACHES a group of friends sneaks into a prestigious and empty mansion during the night. After partying and drinking on the pool edge and after enjoying the luxury provided by the house, the kids steal two ancient shotguns and some other objects of little value before slipping away. This trivial bravado activates an unpredictable chain of events that will lead to shoking conclusions. A minimal structured low budget movie that devolves upon a realistic narration though achieving in keeping alive a constant sense of alert in the spectator, creating a steady tension.  Among the many movies that tell about the Second Wolrd War, LORE situates in a completely innovative position, somehow controversial, presenting a new point of view, that is absolutely original. The protagonists of the story are five childrean of a couple of high nazi officers who at the beginning of the movie are arrested and taken away by the victorious allies. The war is over. Lore is the eldest of the five, a fourteen year old girl, and she must take care of the family’s survival in a devastated Germany, shaken by the war and by the  fall of Nazism. She has to learn how  to trust who she was tought to hate and she has to stop believing in what was always her certain knowledge. An original movie for its narrative choise, evocative and amazing for the visual impact. In the bizzare comedy THE DEFLOWERING OF EVA VAN END, an over the lines and  sometimes grottesque film, we see what can be the result of the collision between absolut perfection and the life of common people. A young German boy is a guest at a “normal” Dutch family’s house for a cultural student Exchange. The boy is impossibly charismatic, handsome and seductive, the dazzling smile and a cover look, refined in the manners. He can seduce whoever he meets and his actions only have perfect results. His charisma is such that it generates the overwhelming desire of being liked by him and of measuring up in the people around him. The recall to Wes Anderson’s comedies can be sensed and it is very effective. In contest also the debut film of the Spanish director Diego Quemada-Diaz THE GOLDEN CAGE, a work that  charms, touches for the extraordinary poetry of which it is full of  and it can move both for the interpreters’ naturalness and both for the realism of the simple, sweet and moving story. Three young boys leave from Guatemala and pass thorugh Mexico hoping to get the dream of the USA.  The golden cage referred to in the title is America, that exploits clandestine workers, keeps them hidden in its womb and condemns them to a one- way destiny in illegality and poverty. The performance of the very young non professional actors is amazing. A movie that makes us travel between pursued desires and  unattainable dreams, alternating moments of delicate beauty and discouraging tragedies. Erell is the teenage protagonist of the French movie THE PIECES OF ME. During the days of her summer holyday, the girl takes care of her mother, chronically (maybe imaginary) ill, depressed and sometimes oppressive. Her relationship with this difficult woman is constantly in balance between plain hate and hidden love. On the other hand the father, with whom she has almost no dialogue, ignores her. She rejects him and then searches him, she provokes him and then escapes him, and so on over and over. Such an already uncertain family balance suffers another serious blow when Erell’s elder sister unexpectedly comes back home many years after she ran away leaving no trace. This movie is a refined family report with an original and fresh overlook, that underlines the contradictions and the great instabilities which are typical of the passage from teenage years to adulthood.   GENERATOR +18(feature lengh films) – Parents and children, teenagers that embark on life and mothers and fathers incapable of fully understanding them are the central idea that ties the movies of GENERATOR+18 section together. Now in its 3rd year of life, this section represents a cruel and estreme insight on the intergenerational relationship prompts and reasons for discussion and reflection to the jurors of this section ( teenagers and adults) Parents’ and children’s behaviour is the main theme of THE WILD ONES by the Spanish director Patricia Ferreira that tells the story of Alex, Gabi and Oki, three teenagers who love spending their time crossing the limits their families and society impose them in a context where they will be more and more put aside rather than being helped. The complex role of mother is recounted in BURNOUT, Verena Frytag’s German movie, in which Pelin, a young single woman and mother of three children (belonging to three different fathers), lives in a suburb in Berlin and works as a tatoo artist. The social service want to take her children away (one of them swallows some drug taken home by Edin, a boy Pelin hangs out with) but she obtains to go and live with them in an institute for troubled mothers. A path will start and Pelin will be forced to deal with her past and she’ll have to make important decisions in order to be a good mother. Instead the protagonist of IT FELT LIKE LOVE (Eliza Hittman’s English film) is Lila, a fourteen year old who is spending a boring  summer in Brooklyn with her friend Chiara and her boyfriend Patrick. Determined to have her own romantic experience, Lila starts to bother Sammy, a much older guy, and also starts to daydream about her relationship with him and to manipulate reality.  This will lead her to a situation and a territory unknown to her, forcing her to face the hard reality. Another German movie in contest is OH BOY, Jan Ole Gerster’s comedy, in which Niko, 20year-old something who lives adrift in Berlin streets, curiously follows the way people face everyday life. But one day everything changes and Niko is compelled to confront himself with the consequences of his own passiveness: his girlfriend ends their relationship, his father cuts off the money for the college and a psychiatric diagnosis states he suffers from “an emotional madness”… A true story is the centre of THE GIRL WITH NINE WINGS ( co-produced by Belgium and Germany and directed by Marc Rothemund). Sophie is a 21 years old very vital girl, she is diagnosed with a pleura tumour and starts the chemotherapy. The discovery of the illness doesn’t effect her desire to live and so she starts writing a blog animated by several characters that she plays time after time, using diffetent wigs as modus vivendi of diffent girls. The Roman hamlet is narrated and depicted in the only Italian movie of the section, TRE GIORNI DOPO by Daniele Grassetti and starring Giorgio Colangeli, Paolo Sassanelli and Alessandro Roja. Matteo, Sandro and Nicola find themselves in incredibile events in stories of underworld, gambling, drugs, booze and thefts. A grottesque frame is the background to this comedy of “normal” guys that find themselves to fear for their own security and to defend themselves from the adults. The American Trevis Fine’s ANY DAY NOW ( starring an amzing Alan Cumming) tells the story of the love of a gay couple for a  down syndrome boy abandoned by his mother. Their non conventional way of living is discovered by the authorities and the two men have to fight against the legal system in order to save the life of the boy they learnt to love as their own.   PREMIERES, PREVIEWS AND SPECIAL EVENTS Once again Giffoni offers its jurors and its audience a rich programme of premieres and previews of the titles that will be in the Italian theatres during the next cinematographic season. For those who love the adventures of the pirate Jack Sparrow the date of 18th July  must be signed on the calendar: there will be a special marathon that will rivisit all the four movies that compose THE PIRATES OFTHE CARIBBEAN saga. A good way to wait for the new chapter in pre-production announced by Walt Disney. The official opening of the Festival will be the premiere of MONSTERS UNIVESRITY. Pixar Animal Studios will raise up the curtain on a new chapter of the adventures of the monsters Sulley and Mike. The picture will hit the Italian theatres on 21st August, distributed by The Walt Disney Company Italia in 3D. This time Mike Wazowski  will have to deal with the snotty James P. Sullivan, during the first term at the University. A big competition will soon start between them and it will cause them to be expelled from the Scarers program of the campus. The young monsters, therefore, will be forced to work together in order to fix several messes that won’t leave us without laughters and dramatic turn of events. The dubbers Fabrizio Biggio and Francesco Mandelli ( the popular I Soliti Idioti duo) will be in Giffoni to present the movie to the public. Still on 19th July the world premiere of L’ULTIMO GOAL, By Federico Di Cicilia, distributed by Jam Film. Filmed in Avellino, the long film tells the story of the football dream pursued by Peppino. His trainer- mentor Carmando helps him in his workout in order to pursue his father’s dream. But not everything goes smoothly. On 20th the day will be dedicated to two titles branded by Disney Channel. In the Sordi Sala, at 17o’clock, there will be a special screening about the second season of the tv series VIOLETTA, produced by Disney Channel America Latina and Disney Channel Europa, Middle East and Africa, in collaboration with the Argentinian production company Pol-ka. In the Tryffaut sala, starting from 19:30 the Disney Channel  Original Movie TEEN BEACH MOVIE will premiere. Among the protagonists are: Ross Lynch and Maia Mitchell, aka Brady and MacKenzie, a couple of young kids trapped in the year 1960 because of a time block. On Monday 21st July all the Festival partecipants will be able to see the preview of MONSTER HIGH 13 DESIRES ( coming out as a DVD edited by Universal on 16th October) and they will attend the award cerimony of the winners of the contest and the related viewing of the episodes they realized. The same day, 21st July, two titles by  Notorious Picture will be shown: BELLE AND SEBASTIEN, inspired by the French literature classic and by the animated series that moved more than one generation and GIOVANI RIBELLI – KILL YOUR DARLING,  starring Daniel Redcliffe as the protagonist, that tells the true story of four young Columbia University Students, ready to challenge the strict rules of the most powerful American university, winding up to be an inspiration for the following generations. On 22nd July  TITEUF – THE MOVIE arrives, film that brings on the big screen the raids  of the cult character of the comic series created by the Swiss Philippe CHappuis. In the long film the protagonist will try in every way he can to get invited to the birthday of his beloved Nadia, the little girl the enfant terrible loves but he’s not returned. Nadia seems to have forgotten to invite him and to make things even more complicated his parents are going through a crisis. We continue in the name of fantasy with the adventure of the young Percy Jackson. On 23th July LoganLerman and Alexandra Daddario, interpreters of the picture PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: THE SEA OF MONSTERS, directed by THOR FREUDENTHAL, will be guests in Giffoni Valle Piana to present the FOX long film, coming out in the USA on 7th August and in the Italian theatres on the 15th. In the second chapters of the famous saga Percy Jackson (Logan LErman), with his friends Chase (Alexandra Daddario), and Tyson, will try to steal the golden fleece from the Cyclops to cure the magic barrier that protects the Camp Half-Blood, notably weakened. The venture will be epic and it will force Percy and his friends to take a long route through the Sea of Monsters. Two previews are scheduled for 24th: MOOD INDIGO , film by the master Michel Gondry starring Audrey Tautou and Romain Daris as protagonists, alongside Omar Sy, Almost Friends sensation actor. The screening during Giffoni precedes the coming out in the Italian theatres, expected for 12th September. The other preview is ECO PLANET – A PLANET TO SAVE, edited by Moviemax Media Group. The animation picture tells the story of the Karen population, a population that lives in a mysterious land in the heart of the forest. They lead a simple life in union with the nature and are directely connected to the nature spirits. They believe the earth is not their possession, but a home that needs to be shared with all the living creatures. The following day another important preview  branded Universal Pictures is planned, JURASSIC PARK IN 3D, Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece that comes back to the cinema for the 20th anniversary of its first release, in a digitally remastered version and only with a digital distribution. Still on Thursday the jurors will attend the screening of the preview teaser for JUSTIN AND  KNIGHTS OF VALOUR, distributed by Moviemax. Another preview that can’t be missed, set on Saturday 27th, is that of the animation movie TARZAN, in Italy starting from November and MIDNIGHT SUN, expected at 19:30 at the Truffaut Sala, distributed by Medusa. Still on 27th LA CANTATA DEI PASTORI is scheduled, animation picture directed by Nicola Basile. They are creatures “ as tall as two apples or a little more”, they are intense blue and, above all, they are ready to conquer the spotlights of the 43rd edition of GIFFONI EXPERIENCE: on 28th July the Smurfs will be exceptional guests. Waiting for their come back in the theatres on 26th September, with THE SMURFS 2 IN3D, distributed by Warner Bros (Pictures Italia), the picture will premiere in the Truffaut sala in the Cittadella del Cinema, preceding of 2 months the Italian release. The sequel follows the evil wizard Gargamel up against the Naughties, little and rebellious creatures he made himself. But to make the project real the wizard will need the support of Smurfette, the only one capable of turning the Naughties into Smurfs, so he decides to kidnap her and takes her to Paris. It will be up to Papa, with his little friends, to team up with the human Patrick and Grace Winslow so to save the sweet Smurfette. Still on the 28th July Disney will play ani m portant role with a marathon that will soak young and old ones in the masterpieces such as PETER PAN, THE ARISTOCATS, THE JUNGLE BOOK AND MONSTERS AND CO. Finally on CUBOVISION, TELECOM ITALIA ON DEMAND TV starting from July to 31st Dicember 2013, SPECIALE GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL will be available on CANALE CINE FAMILY, film retrospect that the festival presented during its latest editions. In Italy five exlusive titles will be available as previews for Cubovision subscribers. Among these, the awaited animaton micture “Titeuf - Il film”, written and directed by Zep, that will be available from 21st to 23rd July, while i twill hit the Italian theaters on 25th July. The others previews on Cubovision from 19th to 23rd July will be: “A Horse on the Balcony”, “Clara and The Secret of the Bears”, “Taking Changes” and “Victor and the Secret of Crocodile Mansion”. Speciale Giffoni Film Festival will also provide the most beautiful movies presented during the previous editions of the event until 31st December, among which “Lou”, “Vorstadtkrokodile”, “Les Mains en l'air” and “Fuchsia, The Mini-Witch”. It will also be possible to see the italian series created by Giffoni Experience for the website She Died, the 2012’s edition highlights, the Masterclasses and there will be the chance to meet all the personalities that have crowded the recent years of the Festival.   MYGIFFONI (IV EDITION)- SHORT FILMS REALIZED BY STUDENTS, ASSOCIATIONS AND YOUNG ITALIAN FILMMAKERS.MyGiffoni is the selection of the contest dedicated to short films realized by young filmmakers, students in collaboration with school institutes or with cultural associations. The selection proposes to be a promotional space for those movies the kids themselves produced and realized, nevertheless a way to better understand their needs, hopes and curiosities. The succes of this third edition is underlined by the numbers: 180 short movies. The award cerimony of this third edition will take place in Giffoni on 27 th July.    THE TALENTS An exceptional parterre with Italian and International guests. On 19th July Stefania Rocca, ActionAid testimonial and 2013’s Giffoni Experience sponsor, will launch the Festival by meeting the young jurors and the audience. The short movie OSA, that she directed for ActionAid, will be shown. To launch the 43rd edition there wil also be Francesco Mandelli e Fabrizio Biggio, the “ Soliti idioti”, busy with the dubbing of “Monster University” and Francesca Cavallin from the cast of “Un medico in Famiglia”. On Saturday 20th Mira and Paul Sorvino will arrive to Giffoni, as well as Marco and Piergiorgio Bellocchio besides Ruggero Pasquarielli, the young actor and singer protagonist of the tv series “Violetta”. On Sunday 21st Jessica Chastain and Dario Argento will walk the blue carpet, alongside the dubbers Mino and Gabriele Caprio, while on Monday 22nd it will be up to Alessandro Siani, Marco Bocci and Giovanni Allevi. On Tuesday 23rd Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Carlo Lucarelli, Fiumanò Domenico Violi and Filippo Nigro will arrive. On 24th July we will meet the star from Glee, Naya Rivera, Marcello Masi, Enzo Monteleone and Lucia Mascino. On 25th the jurors will welcome Barbora Bobul’ova and Giuliano Sangiorgi while on Friday 26th Max Pezzali and Giancarlo Giannini will arrive. On Saturday 27th it will be Sacha Baron Cohen’s and Roberto Saviano’s turn to meet the jurors. On Sunday 28th the closing with Alessandro Gassman who will present the movie “Razza bastarda”.   MASTERCLASS IN 3D This year Masterclass will be devided in 3 sections. It increases and differentiates its offering, it becomes “tridimensional”,getting closer to the personal taste of those who want to live this “formative” unique and once-off experience. These are the new three Masterclass dimentions: MASTERCLASS LAB: only for old Masterclass – which is to say those who already have attended the previous editions of this format. The Lab will have two fundamental moments: a theatrical mise- en –scene and the documentary about the staging of this performance. It all starts from a text that will be chosen with the masterclass students and thanks to the help of a professional coach (actor or director) it will be turned into a piece to perform during the festival. MASTERCLASS MUSIC: In Giffoni the protagonists of many generations of the Italian music will meet the kids to illustrate the paths they chose in the making of music. MASTERCLASS MUSIC is a place in which the artists, far form schemes and conventions, will tell us the most intimate aspects of their works in all honesty. MASTERCLASS EXPERIENCE: The “dimention” that inherits the old masterclass section. Meetings with the celebs of the world of cinema, arts, History, culture, journalism, politics. And there will be something more, the chance to see and vote International, avant-guarde, very classy, high cinematographic quality short films: an incredibile opportunity to stay jurors and measure up with shining personalities that will help to increase the knowledge of those who will take part in it.   GIFFONI MUSIC EXPERIENCE The Giffoni Music Concept returns to the Giffoni Experience with an exclusive series of concerts that will take place on the stage that was specially set up at the council stadium“Giuseppe Troisi” in Giffoni Valle Piana. We start on 19th July with the show dedicated to Brazil, to its culture and traditions with Ipanema Show do Brasil parade, the most flamboyant Brazilian spectacle company in all Europe, that will propose an evening of music and dance with beautiful costumes. A tribute to the partnership between Giffoni Experience and Brazil that last year lead to the creation of the event Giffoni Sao Paulo film festival. On 20th July the date with the irony of Elio e le storie tese, that after the adventure and the success of Sanremo, are coming back to Giffoni after the 2010’s performance, for a special date of their Tour Biango. On 23rd, instead, there will be another important come back: Bandabardò. While on 24th Max Gazzè will be on the stage. The histrionic roman singer-songwriter will propose the songs form the album Sotto casa, very high in the charts. The new is represented by the important Italian rapper that will arrive in Giffoni for 2 special dates by Luigi Florio, known as Don Joe,dj and producer of Club Dogo: on 25th July Antonio Ricardi, who goes by the stage name ‘Nto, and Federico Leonardo Lucia, better known as Fedez, and also Cosimo Fini, who goes by Gué Pequeno, will performe. On 26th it will be up to Clemente Maccaro, known as Clementino, Jari Ivan Vella, aka Ensi and Maurizio Pisciottu, better known ad Salmo. On 27th Giffoni will welcome the music of Renzo Arbore and his Orchestra Italiana while on 28th the famale quintet, composed by Fiorella Mannoia, Chiara, Baby K, Elhaida Dani and Francesca Monte, will close.   GIFFONI AND NAPLES TOGETHER FOR CITTà DELLA SCIENZA The Neapolis Festival comes back home but the bond with Giffoni Experience stays strong. At the Arenile reload in Bagnoli the GFF brings the great International music with two concerts that will take place on 25th and 26 th July and their procedees will go to the reconstruction of the Science Center of Città della Scienza. On 25th we start with Tricky, member of the band Massive Attack, music fathers of the English trip hop. With him, big bands as Fainting by numbers, Soviet Soviet, Fiberglass, and two young newcomers of the Naples rock, the Unhappy and the Motosega. On 26th we will close with the famous Norvegian indie duo Kings of Convenience, preceded by Beatrice Antolini, Tensnake, Fitness Forever, the singer-songwriter Liprando and the Used to be a Sparrow.  

The Giffoni Experience, following the screening of hundreds of films in other festivals around the world - and in anticipation of the Cannes Film Festival in May - has selected some of the films that will be included in the competitive sections of the 2013 GFF.   In the ten days of the Festival, the jurors will watch and judge films of great emotional impact in the competitive sections Elements +3 (3-5 y.o.), Elements +6 (6-9 y.o.), Elements +10 (10-12 y.o.), Generator +13 (13-15 y.o.), Generator +16 (16-17 y.o.), Generator +18 (from 18 on). The 2013 festival, has seen a huge demand from youngsters who want to be part of the jury. Over 25 thousand kids have asked to participate. Giffoni Experience has doubled its capacity for the Elements +10 section and for Masterclass. The number of fans on the social networks keep on increasing highlitghting the incredible appeal of the Giffoni Experience.   For Elements +6 the Giffoni Experience team has chosen “I SWAN” by Chinese director KONG SHENG, “NIKO 2 – LITTLE BROTHER, BIG TROUBLE”, an animation film helmed by KARI JUUSONEN and JØRGEN LERDAM, “A HORSE ON THE BALCONY” by HÜSEYIN TABAK, “JOURNEY TO THE CHRISTMAS STAR” by Norwegian filmmaker NILS GAUP, and “THE FAMOUS FIVE 2”, by MIKE MARZUK, the sequel dof the film that won in its category at the GFF 2012.   Elements + 10 has a very mature offering with films revolving around themes such as war, dictatorship, like “BEKAS” by KARZAN KADER (MinervaPictures in Italy). The other films are “CLARA AND THE SECRET OF THE BEARS” by TOBIAS INEICHEN and Dutch film “MIKE SAYS GOODBYE!” by MARIA PETERS.   Generator + 13 offers a portfolio of films that are often thought provoking and about sensitive issues. Absent parents, crime, moral degradation, lack of cultural support like in the GEORGE TILLMAN JR. (Men of Honor,with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Robert De Niro), helmed“THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER & PETE” starring Academy award winner Jennifer Hudson ( "Dreamgirls") and music star Alicia Keys as executive producer and composer. Also chosen in the mix JULIEN ABRAHAM'S ASPHALT PLAYGROUND.   The more “adult” sections of the GFF are Generator + 16 e +18, offer a reflection on sensitive topisc such as the crisis of the value of the family nucleus, the fear of coming of age and chenge. These are the themes that are present in the Generator +16 films “THE PIECES OF ME” by NOLWENN LEMESLE and “THE DEFLOWERING OF EVA VAN END” by MICHIEL TEN HORN.   Generator +18 includes films like “ANY DAY NOW” helmed by TRAVIS FINE, with Alan Cumming, “OH BOY!”, by German director JAN OLE GERSTER (Academy Two in Italy), “THE WILD ONES” Spanish film by PATRICIA FERREIRA and “IT FELT LIKE LOVE”, debut feature by ELIZA HITTMAN.

After announcing the participation of International star Naya Rivera at the Giffoni Film Festival 2013, the media went crazy. Broadsheets, web, blogs and social networks picked up the news immediately. The GFF facebook page was invaded by fans of the star and in over a couple of hours the news received almost 100.000 hits whilst #italyiswaitingfornaya on twitter was a TT for hours in Italy.         Click to download the press review (newspapers)     Click to download the press review (web)