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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1996 - 27 July.4 August

Sections & Films

  • Filters

Jake Barnes and his two kids, Sean and Jessie, have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a former airline pilot now delivering toilet paper across the mountains. During an...

Category Out of competition
Section Premiere
Tipology Feature Film

Anton is 10 years old. Anton's father was a jet fighter pilot who died in an accident. Anton's mother told Anton that his father is flying angels around in heaven. Anton is...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

The making of "Roma, città aperta" by Rossellini, the difficulties in producing it, the mild reaction from the audience at the opening night.

Category Out of competition
Section Tributes
Tipology Feature Film

Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes everything about his new...

Category Out of competition
Section Premiere
Tipology Feature Film

When Bobby and his Mom move from Toronto, away from his dad and his baseball team, to a small town in Nova Scotia, he's picked on by all the local kids, except for Jo. And Jo has...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

Harry is an eight-year-old boy growing up in Ireland with his dis-spirited widowed mother and older brother. He is bullied in school, and his only real friend is his dog Max. His...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

Young Memo is a happy boy who lives in a small village in the east of Turkey. His father lives in The Netherlands, where he works as a foreign labourer. Things are not going too...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

Dying doctor Jonathan Lyle's last wish is granted, to be young again and play baseball, but only for five days.

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

About a boy who gets hit by a car roller blade, ends up getting cancer and meets an unlikely friend in the hospital where he is getting treated.

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

To young girls - Christina and Maj-Brit - are neighbors and best friends. They come from two different worlds and have their issues. One of those issues tears them apart.

Category Official Competition
Section Childhood screens
Tipology Feature Film