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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 2008 - 18.26 July

Sections & Films

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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

Drum and Bass are “bruitards”: in the shadow of our everyday life they create sounds and noises using their funny instruments.

Category Official Competition
Section Kidz
Tipology Animation, Short Film

Just before his 9th birthday, Prince Macius faces the most difficult moment of his young life: his father, the King, has died and Macius must ascend the throne. Soon the evil...

Category Official Competition
Section Kidz
Tipology Animation, Feature Film

Mrs. Harrier reads the newspaper while having a hearty breakfast. Meanwhile a plump squirrel has entered by the window and sniffs croissants greedily.

Category Official Competition
Section Little Rascals
Tipology Animation, Short Film

1962. The last spring of Algerian war. Summer is next and the country is set to obtain independence from France. 11 year old boy Ali sells newspapers. His world is made up of...

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film

A young Brazilian, Paulinho, is sitting on the roof of his brick house in the heights of a Rio favela. He watches a bird hovering in the sky dreamily. Flying is something he has...

Category Official Competition
Section Troubled Gaze
Tipology Animation, Short Film

Two siblings toil in a world of monotonous machinery, but when a special winged book arrives, a glorious green world unfolds.

Category Official Competition
Section Little Rascals
Tipology Animation, Short Film

Category Official Competition
Section Y Gen
Tipology Feature Film

Chloé has 294 days. Her father 10.935. Today for the first time they will travel together on a train.

Category Official Competition
Section Troubled Gaze
Tipology Animation, Short Film

To impress his father and backed by his peers, Anthony, a twelve year old bully, decides to kill a boy from the neighbourhood. He hangs the boy and leaves him in a deserted...

Category Official Competition
Section Troubled Gaze
Tipology Short Film