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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1978 - 29 July.6 August

Sections & Films

  • Filters

A family of wolves find a lost child near their cave and keep him as their own. He now becomes one of the wolves. When Akeelah, leader of the wolves, grows weak and old, evil...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Animation, Short Film

14 years old Uwe grows up in a dull multi-storey apartment building in a suburb of Hamburg. His father is an alcoholic and beats his son while he's drunk. Only together with his...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film

John magically receives a 3rd eye that makes it possible for him to see what people really think. It disappears only after he has had some wonderful experiences of seeing the nice...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Short Film

First film on drug addiction in Italy, shot in Turin in the Mirafiori Sud district in the winter of 1975/76. The problem of drugs is increasingly serious. Its diffusion,...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Short Film, Documentary

In the city of London, though, the Puss in Boots is making a bet with Gourmont, an infanient man from the city: But he claims he will be able to go around the world in just 8 days...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Animation, Feature Film

In the town of Thiers, summer of 1976, teachers and parents give their children skills, love, and attention. A teacher has his first child, a single mother hopes to meet Mr....

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film

With a traditional archery contest, the winner wins a silver arrow with gold lace and gold feathers. Even Robin Hood, although unrecognizable, takes part in this competition. As...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film

When Billy takes home a dead fish he finds in a pond his cat pinches it and becomes ill after eating it. Billy and his friend Gobby set off to find out what's killing the fish and...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film

9-year-old Naoki and her 3-year-old sister Yuko spend their summer holidays with their grandparents, parents of her mother Michi, a journalist, in a town near Hiroshima, the city...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film

This children's story tells of Willi (Giovanni Widmann), a backward young lad who has not been able to learn to read and write. As a consequence, he has been put in a "special"...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film