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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 2001 - 14.21 July

Sections & Films

  • Filters

After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub,...

Category Out of competition
Section Reload
Tipology Feature Film

A tightrope walker takes on the greatest challenge of his life.

Category Official Competition
Section First Screens
Tipology Animation, Short Film

Athens 1966. Dimitris, 13, unexpectedly loses his father. Seeing his pampered mother collapse, the boy gets carried away and decides to skip childhood in order to stand by her....

Category Official Competition
Section Rear Window
Tipology Feature Film

One day while scuba diving off their grandfather's boat, teenage brothers Christian (Robert Hansen) and Ask (Ralf J. Hollander) discover the infamous German submarine U-461, which...

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film

Two young fishermen are having a contest in the Bergen Harbour. It’s an uneven match, but then both of them hook into something big.

Category Official Competition
Section Rear Window
Tipology Short Film

Benjamin is a 16 year old, paralyzed on one side of his body, with lousy grades in math, who switches to a boarding school to reach grammar school. Acclimatization to the new...

Category Official Competition
Section Rear Window
Tipology Feature Film

One morning the postman delivers a package to Ernst. It's a new soccer ball. The mother comes down with him in the yard to play, but the child would prefer to play with a group of...

Category Official Competition
Section First Screens
Tipology Animation, Short Film

A deaf girl runs away from home on rollerblades.

Category Official Competition
Section Rear Window
Tipology Short Film

When your father is dying of cancer and you are only seven years of age, a lot of questions will arise. Kristian will find his own answers as to what happens when you die, and...

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Short Film

This touching short animation tells the story of Saoussan, a young girl struggling to adjust to life in Canada after being uprooted from her wartorn homeland. She has come to seek...

Category Official Competition
Section First Screens
Tipology Animation, Short Film