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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1997 - 20.27 July

Sections & Films

  • Filters

The humanity and civilisation of the Saharawi people, who are able to retain their dignity and liveliness even while living in complete poverty and who have much more to reach us...

Category Out of competition
Section Beyond Childhood: Five Film Directors For UNICEF
Tipology Short Film

Since the earliest days in her childhood Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken...

Category Official Competition
Section Rear Window
Tipology Feature Film

Xiao Qiang, for friends Dudu, is eight years old and lives with his grandfather in a village on the shores of a lake where, every year, in spring, the cranes return to lay their...

Category Official Competition
Section Childhood screens
Tipology Feature Film

After a hurricane reeks havoc on Sister Island, Mississippi, rescue parties find a young girl on the shore. The girl is alive and soon opens her eyes, but she is non responsive....

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

Eyüp is a ten year old boy who spends the whole day tending his father’s sheep on the hills and dreaming of escaping for a better life, free from boredom and poverty. He...

Category Out of competition
Section Beyond Childhood: Five Film Directors For UNICEF
Tipology Short Film

Rosa, 13, due to a severe malformation in one leg, is forced to wear a wooden prosthesis. His father is a penniless painter, while his mother, a famous opera singer, has abandoned...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

What happens to 10-year-old Maya when she discovers that the world's best dad has a long-legged, dark-haired secret? If your Indian name is Maya Stoneface, you put on your war...

Category Official Competition
Section Childhood screens
Tipology Feature Film

In June 1996 I met about 200 children in Sarajevo and I learned their stories.

Category Out of competition
Section Beyond Childhood: Five Film Directors For UNICEF
Tipology Short Film

Sasha, 10, lives in Perm in Russia. The mother is under a train and nobody tells him how it happened. The father, destroyed by the loss of his wife, works as a guard in a prison...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

The daughter of a rich man finds herself in conflict with her father when he refuses to accept the boys she loves, a poor musician.

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