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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 2006 - 14.22 July

Sections & Films

  • Filters

In a cellar transformed into a shelter, two children sign a pact to escape the atrocities of war. Their promise will come true two generations later.

Category Official Competition
Section Y Gen
Tipology Short Film
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On the eve of war in Bosnia, two boys go looking for a treasure in an abandoned hill fort oblivious to the encroaching danger. Instead of gold they find a gun and overnight both...

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Short Film
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Wilden Kerle football team (Wild Soccer Bunch), after legendary success, no longer exists. The players are now teenagers and all dedicated to other sports. Nonetheless, there is...

Category Official Competition
Section First Screens
Tipology Feature Film
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Kelvin Kind is a wonderful loser with a heart of gold. Spending his time fixing toasters and watching cable TV, Kelvin is blissfully unaware of his own loneliness. But when a...

Category Official Competition
Section Y Gen
Tipology Short Film
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Torvald is much smaller than the other woodcutters. Each Christmas he tries to make up for it by promising to bring home the biggest Christmas tree. The biggest of them all.

Category Official Competition
Section Kidz
Tipology Animation, Short Film
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One day 11-year-old Unna feels a pain in her chest – she senses that her Grandfather is in danger. Unna calls him, saving his life. At the hospital grandfather reveals that the...

Category Official Competition
Section Kidz
Tipology Feature Film
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The early 1900s. Nine-year-old Valo lives with his father, a chimney sweep, in a small village in the Russian region of Ingria. When the local school  is closed and the...

Category Official Competition
Section First Screens
Tipology Feature Film
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After a long stint in her boarding school, Vika, 12, returns home for the weekend. A new sister awaits her filthy and crying. Vika suddenly understands the gravity of the...

Category Official Competition
Section Troubled Gaze
Tipology Short Film
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Vincent, 8, tries to make sense of the world. Taking his clues from the grown-ups, his logical conclusions include that in order to avoid death he must never go to sleep again....

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Short Film
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Thirteen year-old Frits has fallen out of favour with the headmaster of his provincial school. The year is 1969. The world is changing rapidly and corporal punishment has been...

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film
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