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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1998 - 19.26 July

Sections & Films

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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 Rear Window
Tipology Feature Film

Based on factual accounts, this is the story of two young girls that, somehow, have the ability to take pictures of winged beings... which certainly causes quite a stir throughout...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film

Following the French atomic bomb tests in the South Pacific, an unknown creature is spotted passing eastward through the Panama Canal. Scientist Niko Tatopolous is called in to...

Category Official Competition
Section Premiere
Tipology Feature Film

This retelling of the old Chinese folktale is about the story of a young Chinese maiden who learns that her weakened and lame father is to be called up into the army in order to...

Category Out of competition
Section Premiere
Tipology Animation, Feature Film

Paulie, an intelligent parrot who actually talks, relates the story of his struggle to a Russian immigrant who works as a janitor at the research institute where he is housed and...

Category Official Competition
Section Childhood screens
Tipology Feature Film

It's a busy day along the city sidewalks as an elderly pet-shop owner hangs a sign, "Puppies For Sale." Later, he's in his back room when he hears the shop bell jingle signaling a...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Short Film

During the times of King Arthur, the story of an adventurous brave girl, named Kayley, whose father, a Knight of the Round Table, is killed by Sir Ruber, a maniacal brute who...

Category Out of competition
Section Premiere
Tipology Animation, Feature Film

A teenage girl riding a horse is hit by a truck. To help heal her troubled/injured daughter, and horse, the mother takes them to Montana to recuperate at the ranch of a 'horse...

Category Out of competition
Section Premiere
Tipology Feature Film

This tells the story of a strong friendship between a young boy with Morquio's syndrome and an older boy who is always bullied because of his size. Adapted from the novel, Freak...

Category Out of competition
Section Y Gen
Tipology Feature Film

A 10 year old gifted boy wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical oriented piano instructor. With his mother's help, he is an underage regular at a...

Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film