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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1994 - 30 July.6 August

Sections & Films

  • Filters

Seven-year-old Maruska grows up in Prague in the 1950s, raised more by her relatives than her zealous, society-building mother.

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

Panic is a small-time crook of Soweto completely uninterested in political struggle. One day he is arrested together with Sam, involved in politics. Panic finishes up in a cell...

Category Out of competition
Section Guardians of Popular Memory: South African Cinema Against Apartheid
Tipology Feature Film

Forced by the greedy courtier Jafar to recover a magic lamp, young Aladdin becomes the master of a genie capable of a thousand transformations. But above all the genie helps...

Category Out of competition
Section Cartoons
Tipology Animation, Feature Film

1954 is the year dedicated to the Madonna. Barry O'Neill an Irish altar boy discovers in a barn a man who resembles the good thief of Calvary and the man admits he is. Suggestive,...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology TV Series

Based upon the novel by Klaus Hagerup, we follow the grumpy 12 year old Mari, without any friends, not at all content with her body or her family. Interesingly enough, quite like...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

Eleven-year old Preston’s bicycle gets flattened by a flashy new Jaguar driven by the shady Quigley, a launderer of dirty money. To hush up the matter and avoid problems with...

Category Out of competition
Section Premiere
Tipology Feature Film

Kalle and his dad is having a long planned summer holiday at his grandparents in the countryside, where has made a hang-glider as planned. But when the father falls down with it,...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

One day LP leaves on a sailing boat apparently to escape from an oppressive father. During the voyage he meets Line, a twenty-year old girl, with whom he falls in love. His...

Category Official Competition
Section Shadowline
Tipology Feature Film

In a Basque country after the end of World War II, Iciar, 8, lives with his family in a sad and repressive climate: the mother is not interested in her, her father is violent and...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

The half-cast Fiela, and her affectionate family, take in Benjamin, a white child abandoned by his mother. When the child grows older a magistrate discovers the illegal adoption...

Category Out of competition
Section Guardians of Popular Memory: South African Cinema Against Apartheid
Tipology Feature Film