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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1989 - 29 July.6 August

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Josh Baskin would do anything to be big to hang out with his crush at the carnival. He finds a Zoltar machine, and he wishes to be big. After Zoltar tells him, "his wish is...

Category Out of competition
Section Midnight and Cinema
Tipology Feature Film

A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's...

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

Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and...

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

A sophisticated young Parisian girl is forced, due to criminal charges against her father and her mother’s nervous collapse, to take up residence with her less sophisticated...

Category Out of competition
Section Midnight and Cinema
Tipology Feature Film

A boy who grew up in a native Sicilian Village returns home as a famous director after receiving news about the death of an old friend. Told in a flashback, Salvatore...

Category Out of competition
Section Midnight and Cinema
Tipology Feature Film

The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle of his brother...

Category Out of competition
Section Midnight and Cinema
Tipology Feature Film, Special Event

A girl from a good family in search of affection is running away. It imposes itself in the life of two returnees on the run, who become the real hostages of the little Savannah...

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

On their arrival in Mingan,on the north coast of the St-Lawrence's Gulf, a couple notice a young girl floating in the ocean. Thinking saving her, they discover that, in fact,...

Category Out of competition
Section Portrait
Tipology Feature Film

In a small town in post-World-War-II France, an unhappy sixteen-year-old (Janine Castang) tries to escape her dreary situation by any means at her disposal. Three successive...

Category Out of competition
Section Midnight and Cinema
Tipology Feature Film

When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel...

Category Out of competition
Section Portrait
Tipology Feature Film