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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1997 - 20.27 July

Sections & Films

  • Filters

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

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

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

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

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

A fairy-tale about knight honour, punished evil and tender love. Three royal brothers are put to the test in the fight with the king of the underworld in order to save captured...

Category Out of competition
Section Kids in Wonderland
Tipology Feature Film