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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1997 - 20.27 July

Sections & Films

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At the final match of a chess tournament a deaf and dumb girl clashes with a boy who is full of prejudice and who thinks he has the victory in his hands. He will learn at his own...

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

Due to a magic spell a King begins to grow old very quickly. He asks his three sons to go and search for an antidote for his sickness. The first two laugh at their younger brother...

Category Out of competition
Section Kids in Wonderland
Tipology Feature Film

The anti-personnel mine is cheap to produce, but deadly. It is easy to position and prime and it stays active under the ground for more than fifty years. Menaced by these terrible...

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

It's Christmas and the 7 Year old Hector is traveling with his parents to France in order to visit his grandmother. He is not pleased because it's always boring there. After his...

Category Official Competition
Section Childhood screens
Tipology Feature Film

A child goes on a train journey to see the world. During the trip he will discover that there are children who suffer hunger and cold, and some who suffer every kind of violence....

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

At a fair a girl is asked by her parents to follow a man who will accompany her into the city.  The young woman discovers to her horror that her parents have sold her to the...

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

The open-air games of some children are suddenly interrupted by the appearance of a television set. The images that appear on the screen, at the beginning fascinating, soon become...

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

The four children that are the symbols of the United Nations Convention on Children’s Rights discover how the dreams of children from all over the world are broken. They decide...

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

Charles-Ingvar "Sickan" Jönsson is a new student in Dynamit-Harry's and Ragnars's school. He instantly gets bullied by Junior and Biffen for his nerdy look. The year is 1953 and...

Category Official Competition
Section Childhood screens
Tipology Feature Film, Fiction