logo 2008

GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 2008 - 18.26 July

Sections & Films

  • Filters

Estrella tells us some episodes of her coloured and funny family, but above all presents us her father, a quiet man.

Category Official Competition
Section Troubled Gaze
Tipology Short Film
Access

AH

Ji-young, a deaf girl, sometimes imagines the last sounds that she could remember. While working hard at a key repair shop, she comes upon the chance to retrieve her hearing in...

Category Official Competition
Section Troubled Gaze
Tipology Short Film

Palermo in the Seventies. Francesco is eight years old and he is the twelfth of thirteen brothers. When his mother dies of a cancer, his life radically changes.

Category Official Competition
Section Troubled Gaze
Tipology Short Film

Eric lives for all things hockey. Now in his thirties, he’s managed to turn his stint as an ex-Toronto Maple Leaf into a full-time gig as commentator for sports TV. He's living...

Category Out of competition
Section Troubled Gaze
Tipology Feature Film

Alex, a Swedish man of Greek ancestry, has decided to reveal his great secret: that he is gay. Telling his family would be disastrous. That, at least, is what he thinks as he sits...

Category Official Competition
Section Troubled Gaze
Tipology Short Film

A little boy experiences life in prison through the letters from his brother, who is serving a jail sentence.

Category Official Competition
Section Troubled Gaze
Tipology Short Film

Rosan, a fourteen-year-old girl, has a video diary. She records everyday occurrences, but she soon finds that her webcam recordings are the only way to express her deeper...

Category Official Competition
Section Troubled Gaze
Tipology Short Film

A boxer is taken away from the ring because he is seriously injured. While he is being taken to the hospital, he remembers his dramatic childhood.

Category Official Competition
Section Troubled Gaze
Tipology Short Film

Nana is a pretty unusual granny. She helps old people, she is a great painter and everybody loves her because she has everything under control...

Category Official Competition
Section Troubled Gaze
Tipology Short Film

In a desertic Mexican highway, a family struggles to survive extreme poverty by selling animals to the passing drivers.

Category Official Competition
Section Troubled Gaze
Tipology Short Film