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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1999 - 18.24 July

Sections & Films

  • Filters

Poor but happy, young Nello and his grandfather live alone, delivering milk as a livelihood, in the outskirts of Antwerp, a city in Flanders (the Flemish or Dutch-speaking part of...

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film

The story of a Jewish family that goes into hiding during world war 2.

Category Out of competition
Section Premiere
Tipology Animation, Feature Film

Babel tells the story of the Babels, a strange breed of four-foot-tall creatures who once coexisted happily with human beings on planet Earth. However, when the humans built a...

Category Official Competition
Section First Screens
Tipology Feature Film

What would happen to the children if there weren’t any adults? And what would happen to adults without the children and their genial intellect that allows them to see man’s...

Category Out of competition
Section Premiere
Tipology Feature Film

Gloria is set against the backdrop of a rural landscape slowly disappearing in modern Portugal. The small border town of Vila de Santiago, once a booming trade center for illegal...

Category Official Competition
Section Rear Window
Tipology Feature Film

Out in the wilds, an aged man tells his grandchildren a tale of his own youth. After his mother dies, his usually-absent father, whom he barely knows, takes him into these same...

Category Out of competition
Section Premiere
Tipology Feature Film

Katia, 9, lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. Left often alone by her parents, too busy with their careers to take care of her, Katja spends her days watching the birds in the woods....

Category Official Competition
Section First Screens
Tipology Feature Film

A young boy develops a passion for archeology and tries to unravel the truth about his ancestry.

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film

A terminally-ill boy's life is saved when his deceased 400-year-old friend, "Mr. Rice", leads him on a treasure hunt to find a magical "Potion of Life".

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film

Canadian/Swiss/French production that tells the tale of Hannah, a tomboyish 13 year-old hitting puberty in 1963. An unhappy and uncomfortable family life leads Hannah to seek...

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film