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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1997 - 20.27 July

Sections & Films

  • Filters

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

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

Lawrence has a special power: by blowing he can drive all kinds of obstacles from his path. Thanks to this prodigious ability, the boy plows the waves of the ocean on a raft. He...

Category Official Competition
Section Childhood screens
Tipology Feature Film

A Jewish family leaves Germany after surviving the Holocaust and heads to Norway. Mendel, their youngest son, is too young to make sense of the Holocaust but tries to comprehend...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

13 year old Kim feels at home in the wilderness. One night, nature's soul appears to him in the form of an Indian, and designates him nature's protector. Kim decides to remain out...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

John Langer, a crusty old civic engineer, has an arsenal full of memories. With irreverent wit, he rattles on, in his irascible humorous style, burning his spicy stories into the...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

In 1218 Danish king Valdemar sends his homonymous young son and heir in safety, as war is at the borders, to Erskil, the bishop of Ravensburg, who is instructed to see to the...

Category Official Competition
Section Childhood screens
Tipology Feature Film

Alex (the main character) is an 11-year-old Jewish boy living in a Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II with his father and their friend, Boruch. German soldiers...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

Spencer, 12, after his mother's death, lives with his father and sister. His great passion is the science fiction comics with which he tries, disturbed by Turbo, a classmate, to...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film