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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1979 - 18.26 August

Sections & Films

  • Filters

The Whooping Crane, the largest and, according to many, the most beautiful bird in North America, is also the rarest. Today, despite nearly forty years of protecting it, an...

Category Out of competition
Section Canadian Movies Presented in Decentralization
Tipology Short Film, Documentary

Stephen is one of the 4 inhabitants of the Lennard island. Where he lives there are no roads or ports, but there is a ghost. There is a path called Sam named after the dog who...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Short Film, Documentary

Benoit, 11, is part of the symphonic orchestra of young Liulietta. She is demanding, but he gladly lends himself to Sunday rehearsals and continues the violin exercises at home...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Short Film, Documentary

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Category Out of competition
Section Canadian Movies Presented in Decentralization

David is the personification of everything that is small, he is invisible to the giants that inhabit this world. Nevertheless he wishes to present himself all over the world. This...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Animation, Short Film

This animated short film by Eugene Fedorenko tells the story of a child rejected and taken by two tramps. This film, which won the Oscar® for Best Animated Short in 1979, was...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Animation, Short Film

Mental retardation, a condition that affects three children in a hundred in Canada, is not entirely curable, but with appropriate stimuli and help, many of these children can...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Animation, Short Film, Documentary

This short dramatic film about a young boy torn between conflicting loyalties is resolved with humor and wisdom. Sunday, two o'clock, is zero hour for Gaston. He must be in two...

Category Out of competition
Section Canadian Movies Presented in Decentralization
Tipology Short Film

This film is dedicated to mothers, fathers, grandparents, grandmothers and teachers who have nurtured in their children the memory and knowledge of Italy. Left a lot or a short...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Short Film, Documentary

It is a satirical commentary on human oddities. We are often wrong, but we certainly experience it.

Category Out of competition
Section Review of Movies Produced by Italian and Foreign Children and Schools
Tipology Short Film