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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1997 - 20.27 July

Sections & Films

  • Filters

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

Jonah is a little shoe-shine boy. His mother works as a laundress and his sister, Lisa, takes care of the new born baby. Their stepfather is a drunkard and after the last in a...

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

Story of a young boy who is made to work forcibly in the hazardous lock industry.

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

At school the teacher asks the students if they would like to participate to the Ciak Junior contest. Everybody starts dreaming incredible adventures, but the teacher suggests...

Category Out of competition
Section Ciak Junior
Tipology Short Film

From the moment he is born a boy refuses to wear the masks that his family try to force him to wear. He ends up on the psychiatrists couch where he discovers that he is not the...

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

A group of children take delight in teasing Oukil, an African boy who is just arrived in town. Hearing by chance from an old man the sad experience he had as an emigrant when he...

Category Out of competition
Section Ciak Junior
Tipology Short Film