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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1999 - 18.24 July

Sections & Films

  • Filters

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

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

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

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

Simon Birch was the smallest baby ever born in the Gravestone Memorial Hospital. The doctors proclaimed Simon’s birth a miracle, and ever since, he is always ready to remind...

Category Out of competition
Section Premiere
Tipology Feature Film

Korea 1950-1953. In a small rural village war seems far away, but poverty and ideological differences put its inhabitants against each other. Two boys, Sung Min and Chang Hee,...

Category Official Competition
Section Rear Window
Tipology Feature Film

The heroine of the children's film De Bal is eleven-year-old Sophia, who doesn't understand why her father does not live with her. She creates a fantasy world in which she...

Category Official Competition
Section First Screens
Tipology Feature Film