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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 female teenager witnesses a murder in a desolate high density housing area on the outskirts of Berlin and is henceforth in danger.

Category Official Competition
Section Rear Window
Tipology Feature Film

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on...

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film

Around the Fire is the deeply resonant story of a boy named Simon, who despite being raised in an upper-class Manhattan household with all its privileges--and restrictions--is...

Category Official Competition
Section Rear Window
Tipology Feature 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

County Durham, during the endless, violent 1984 strike against the Thatcher closure of British coal mines. Widower Jackie Elliot and his firstborn, fellow miner Tony, take a dim...

Category Out of competition
Section Reload
Tipology Feature Film

Nino, a young sorcerer apprentice of just 300 years, lives in the middle of a megalopolis in an enchanted castle. With him his teachers: Aunt Morgana, a powerful sorceress, and...

Category Official Competition
Section First Screens
Tipology Feature 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

Luca, forty-year-old, carries with him the lacerating memories of his youth destroyed by the abuse of his father. Margherita, also forty, is an assistant district attorney,...

Category Out of competition
Section Reload
Tipology Feature Film