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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1997 - 20.27 July

Sections & Films

  • Filters

Federica is so infatuated with the world presented in American telefilms that she imagines her school to be an exclusive college, the Gramsci School, and herself to be the...

Category Out of competition
Section Ciak Junior
Tipology Short Film

One day two new classmates- brother and sister- arrive in class; after a few days, however, they disappear. The rest of the class decide to indagate, finding out that the two...

Category Out of competition
Section Ciak Junior
Tipology Short Film

On a table the protagonist’s hands tell a story with the help of some objects taken out of a box, the story of his difficult relationship with his father. When he was a student,...

Category Out of competition
Section Ciak Junior
Tipology Short Film

Alì Babà, son in law of the Sultan of Persia, goes off  to search for his brother, Tahieb, who disappeared at sea. On this mission he his accompained by his old friends,...

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

Summer 1969. Andrea, thirteen, goes on holiday to his grandparents house on the lake. As always, all the family is present: his mother, beautiful but dissatisfied; his father,...

Category Out of competition
Section Special Events
Tipology Feature Film

Madeline is 13 years old, as are her two friends, and nothing looks the same to her. Her sister is leaving to study medicine, and there's Freddy who's looking at her as no one has...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

10-year-old Harriet dreams of leaving her home, where she doesn't feel she's needed by her mother and sister Gwen. When her mother dies in a car accident, she really starts to...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

Adults put a whole avalanche of notions into children’s minds without taking into account their tastes, in order that they grow up to be submissive, obedient adults-but revolt...

Category Out of competition
Section Planet Childhood: Rights From The Heart
Tipology Animation, Short Film

Paris, in a close future. People has found shelter underground, in the catacombs of the city.  One day a child discovers a video monitor screening the empty streets of the...

Category Out of competition
Section Ciak Junior
Tipology Animation, Short Film

Nat, a penniless writer, sells a fairytale to the producer Lampostil who, distorted the story, makes a film of all sex and violence. The writer then decided to "enter" the young...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film