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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1998 - 19.26 July

Sections & Films

  • Filters

Sam, the 12 year old son of a famous missing polar explorer, has despaired. His mother has married again and moved with him and her new husband to the wasteland of Canada. He...

Category Official Competition
Section Childhood screens
Tipology Feature Film

Sébastien is forced to spend Christmas with his parents at the home of Madame Dron. Every year there is the same boring ritual that the adults enjoy so much. One year Sébastien...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Short Film

To punish three troublemakers, Albert Castraing, their French teacher, gives them an essay to do, in which they must imagine what their lives would be if they were suddenly...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

Preparing oneself for adolescence is not easy: sometimes it arrives very suddenly. How does one behave to find out how girls are made, and above all, to make people notice you?

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Short Film

Ludovic is a transgender girl who is coming out. She talks of marrying her neighbor's son and can not understand why everyone is so surprised about it. Her family and neighbors...

Category Official Competition
Section Rear Window
Tipology Feature Film

Out of love for their one-eyed child, a poor peasant couple give everything they have in an attempt to provide for her happiness.

Category Out of competition
Section Angels and Devils
Tipology Animation, Short Film

The story of Lieve, a young orphan who lives with her aunt in a house for elderly people. When she finds a wounded pigeon, she integrates it in her world of fantasies and is...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Short Film

Jack, a boy of thirteen who has a hare-lip undergoes plastic surgery to correct this defect. During his convalescence all the mirrors are taken away. One night, while he is...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Short Film

A boy discovers that the barber in the area where he lives is looking for someone to help him on Saturdays and he decides to accept the job. This brings him into contact with an...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Short Film

The Borrowers are four-inch high "little people" who live under the floorboards. When the owner of the house they live in dies and her evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter wants to...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Short Film