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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1988 - 30 July.7 August

Sections & Films

  • Filters

Following the death of his father, suburbanite Obie runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, he befriends con artist Scam. The two then embark...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

Don Cuco is a young widowed teacher, who works in a remote village in Andalusia. At his charge he has the group of 5º R, where all the repeaters and vagrants of the town are....

Category Out of competition
Section Kids in the Spanish Cinema
Tipology Feature Film

1928, a young and nonconformist teacher tries to educate her children to non-violence. But at the outbreak of war all the grown up children will leave and few will come back. When...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

During the Second World War, a teenager becomes a hero to impress the elect of his heart, which remains resolutely marble against his advances.

Category Out of competition
Section Portrait
Tipology Feature Film

Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941....

Category Out of competition
Section Midnight and Cinema
Tipology Feature Film

In an old Hollywood mansion, the spirit of an old family retainer inhabits an old grandfather clock. When a movie company uses the mansion for a film, the spirit inhabits the body...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

In 1944, upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother François travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and...

Category Out of competition
Section Midnight and Cinema
Tipology Feature Film

Marco, a nine year old boy, is in love with his elementary teacher, and feels neglected by his workaholic parents. When they forget about his birthday he wishes he could grow up...

Category Out of competition
Section Midnight and Cinema
Tipology Feature Film

A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in...

Category Out of competition
Section Midnight and Cinema
Tipology Feature Film

In a remote Norwegian mountain-area in the 1930s, two 12 year old girls Siss and Unn meet. They are friends, but for Unn it is more serious. She admits to having secret and...

Category Out of competition
Section Portrait
Tipology Feature Film