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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 2008 - 18.26 July

Sections & Films

  • Filters

Cosimo is in jail for stealing a car. His friends the old Capannelle, Mario, the Sicilian Ferribotte, and the photographer Tiberio are looking for someone who will confess the...

Category Out of competition
Section 8 1/2
Tipology Feature Film

Awet has the heart of a fighter: filled with strength, love and longing. Despite the chaos and turbulence of the war of independence against Ethiopia, bright little Awet grows up...

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film

Borgo (Emilia Romagna) between 1930 and 1935. Titta is and adolescent who is searching for his identity. Around him his unique family and the typical life of the Italian province...

Category Out of competition
Section 8 1/2
Tipology Feature Film

A 17 year old boy, after a car accident, falls in a irreversible deep coma. This is starting point to tell a story about adolescents of our time, trying to understand their...

Category Out of competition
Section Special Screenings
Tipology Feature Film

The documentary tells the story of John Baptist Onama, 41 years old, who was a child soldier in the Eighties in Idi Amin ruled Uganda. His story is enlaced with those of other...

Category Out of competition
Section Y Gen
Tipology Documentary, Feature Film

Saverio is a primary school teacher. While travelling with janitor Mario, his brother in law, stops at a level-crossing that never opens. They look for a different road and,...

Category Out of competition
Section 8 1/2
Tipology Feature Film

Summer. Bruno zips along Italian streets with his convertible car. He is aggressive and rude. He lives by his wits, he is divorced and his daughter is going to marry a rich and...

Category Out of competition
Section 8 1/2
Tipology Feature Film

In a working-class suburb of Milan, a woman of Southern Italian origins is arrested for prostituting her daughter, Rosetta, an 11 year old girl. Antonio, a policeman, born in...

Category Out of competition
Section 8 1/2
Tipology Feature Film

Leo, a vegetarian lion, is an outcast. One day he meets Avoria, the queen of a herd of elephants as she gives birth to two twins with intertwined tails. Avoria is the widow of...

Category Official Competition
Section Kidz
Tipology Animation, Feature Film

Italy, World War II. In a village disrupted by war, while people are waiting for the Allies’ arrival, the Germans get there first, destroying and stealing everything and...

Category Out of competition
Section Troubled Gaze
Tipology Feature Film