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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

AMY

Amy is a story of a young girl who witnesses her dad's death on stage at a rock concert. She becomes mentally mute/deaf after this, and 4 years later discovers she can communicate...

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film

A little boy grows up isolated from the world with his father, who teaches him a secret language to communicate. When the father dies, the boy has to relate to his society, but is...

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film

Shiwa, the son of a poor Chinese farmer, is doing well at school. But when his mother dies and his sister leaves the house, he's the only one left to take care of his disabled...

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
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

Eleven-year-old Maria loses her little brother to cancer. Her mother retreats into deep depression; her father attempts to keep the family emotionally afloat. Sent to her...

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film

Recently orphaned in America, teenager David Roberts must spend the summer with grumpy maternal grandfather Adam MacAdam, whom he never met, on his sheep-farm on the Isle of Man....

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

Barney Snow (Wood) wakes up in a hospital with no memories but his name & recurring images of a car crash. With little else to go on, he makes the place his temporary home and...

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film