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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1997 - 20.27 July

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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

In a schoolyard the smaller children suffer from the bullying of the older ones. They realise they must all try to find a solution to the problem together.

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

In a country at war a thirteen year old boy is enlisted. He is proud of his rifle, but when his father is killed in the trenches he realises that war is not a game.

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

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