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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 2008 - 18.26 July

Sections & Films

  • Filters

Stacey doesn’t fit in at school and is bullied about her clothes.  Then she meets Carlie, a traveller girl who introduces her to magic and self-belief.  The film is...

Category Official Competition
Section First Screens
Tipology Short Film

Esther Blueburger, a 13 year-old, is seeking something ambitious: to defy the chaos of the world and to be herself. All begins when she encounters Sunni, a cool girl who is...

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film

Soichiro Honda is a kid with a big dream. This is his story…

Category Official Competition
Section First Screens
Tipology Animation, Short 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

Interlude – “an unimportant event on the way from one state to another". Or a small film about living in Norway and longing for something intangible.

Category Official Competition
Section Y Gen
Tipology Short Film

Karla, a 10 year-old, has a puzzle to solve: she wants her whole family to get together for Christmas dinner. But that’s not an easy thing to do, especially when your parents...

Category Official Competition
Section First Screens
Tipology Feature 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

Category Official Competition
Section Y Gen
Tipology Short Film

Sirimal, an 11 year-old boy from a very poor family in a remote village, obtains the highest marks in the scholarship exams of the fifth year, and enters a star college in the...

Category Official Competition
Section Kidz
Tipology Feature Film

Leroy, 17 years old, is German – and black. He wears a big afro, but prefers Mozart to Hip Hop. Leroy’s friends are outsiders as well, Dimi is Greek and Achmed is Palestinian....

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film