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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1979 - 18.26 August

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Susanna is 17 years old and is expecting a baby. His man is 19 years old. She is in constant struggle with her man, with her parents, with her friends and with her workmates.

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Short Film

The film deals with the eternal problem of abandoned childhood and exploitation of child labor. Problem that exists especially in large cities where many young people are...

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

Pepe, a young Puerto Rican, is knocked down by Riff and his friends. Riff, to humiliate again Pepe invites him to participate in a local bicycle race. Pepe reluctantly accepts the...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Short Film

Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the...

Category Out of competition
Section Review "Youth Problems in Contemporary World"
Tipology Feature Film

The new bees were born in the beehive and, among these, the little Ape Maja immediately reveals its independent and adventurous character. Together with his friend Willi, he...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Animation, Feature Film

Set in a Summer resort where older adolescents are learning English, a young man finds himself attracted to his teacher. She has a son (Tomas Holy), roughly eight years of age,...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film

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

The 12-year-old Aneta and Boy feel that there is something like a first love between them. The kids are traveling to the countryside together. They get to two of Aneta's...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film

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

A mother has her first child. She and her husband are very proud of their daughter, but they are extremely protective and deprive her of her natural development. Relationships...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Animation, Short Film