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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1994 - 30 July.6 August

Sections & Films

  • Filters

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

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

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

The body of a police informer is found in an empty house closer to a school not far from the Northern Ireland border. Suspicion falls on the school’s headmistress, her husband,...

Category Out of competition
Section Shadowline
Tipology Feature Film

Jobman is a black deafmute of 25 who has been humiliated by life and people. The film begins with his arrest and ill-treatment. Meanwhile, the Karoo farm, where Jobman has his...

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

A group of Welsh teenagers set off with their three teachers on a school journey to see the art treasures of Saint Petersburg. No sooner are they in Russia than pupils and...

Category Out of competition
Section Shadowline
Tipology Feature Film

After an accident Gaetano, an old hackney driver, is sent into retirement and his horse, Nestore, faces the prospect of finishing up as catfood. But Nestore refuses to enter the...

Category Out of competition
Section Special Events
Tipology Feature Film, Special Event

Sun-Jae is an abandoned child brought up as the son of the thief Moon-Soo. On the man’s death the child finds himself alone. The encounter with Yi-Ryun, a slightly older girl...

Category Out of competition
Section Shadowline
Tipology Feature Film

Little Eddy tells the story of the cock Chanticleer who says he is able to make the sun come up every morning but who then decides to break with his friends when they discover...

Category Out of competition
Section Shadowline
Tipology Animation, Feature Film