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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

A group of artists and a special experimental class of students from an elementary rural school in the state of Pennsylvania, USA, spend four days together to prepare and...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Short Film, Documentary

The incomparable beauty of the river Nile, the Egyptian landscape and the wonderful Pharaonic works.

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Short Film, Documentary

Documentary produced by The Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR, officially "Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln", translated "Western German Broadcasting [in] Cologne") is a German...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Documentary, Feature Film

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

The documentary brings us back to 15 billion years ago of the universe. All events shown by the author are contained in the documentary as various illustrations serve to have...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Short Film, Documentary

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Category Out of competition
Section Spanish Movies Presented in Decentralization
Tipology Documentary

"Fatma of the Forest" documentary, screened in 1979, International Year of Children, reflects life, longings and a major "fear" in her subconscious of an 12-years old "woodcutter"...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Short Film, Documentary

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