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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1999 - 18.24 July

Sections & Films

  • Filters

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

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

The traditional Indian mahout not only trains elephants but gains a special bond with his animals. In the 1970s, Makbul leaves school to follow this, his father's vocation. He is...

Category Official Competition
Section Rear Window
Tipology Feature Film

He is a man haunted by control. In an automated world, drained of all emotion, he is tortured by regrets.

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

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

In a village legend has it that the scourge of leprosy is caused by the fish that cries in the lake. Only a man with five sons and five females can kill him. A man once succeeded...

Category Official Competition
Section Rear Window
Tipology Feature Film

New Year's Eve, late 1800s. A group of loggers in an isolated lumber camp yearn to celebrate with their loved ones, but the river is frozen. If the men want to see their families,...

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

The Rogers family spend their time watching television, each in their own separate room. All except Veronica Rogers, their suicidal teenage daughter, but no-one pays any attention...

Category Out of competition
Section Preludes
Tipology Short Film