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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

When Albert’s best friend Egon goes missing, Albert embarks on an adventure to find him. Along the way he meets Sabrina and together they must save Egon.

Category Official Competition
Section First Screens
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

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

Recife, Brasil, 1929. Clarice is a young author with a fervid imagination and a great passion for literature. When a school friend promises her a book, which in reality she has no...

Category Official Competition
Section Preludes
Tipology Short Film, Fiction

DON

Don is the story of a young boy desperate to find work to help support his family and heroin addicted parents. Moving from employer to employer, Don, aged only 9 and illiterate,...

Category Official Competition
Section Rear Window
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

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

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

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