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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 2008 - 18.26 July

Sections & Films

  • Filters

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

Category Official Competition
Section First Screens
Tipology Animation, Feature 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

Thomas is turning 16, and moving to a new home with his family. He has to start at a new school, and all he wants is to fit in. His older brother Charlie is autistic and has...

Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film

An imaginative little girl tries, with a lot of creativity and the help of a butterfly, to get on the swing which is too high. But there is a surprise waiting for the girl.

Category Official Competition
Section Little Rascals
Tipology Animation, Short Film

Category Official Competition
Section Y Gen
Tipology Animation, Short Film

A man comes back to his hometown. He is looking for something he hid twenty years before. A ribbon that makes him remember the day when, while playing hide and seek, he understood...

Category Official Competition
Section Kidz
Tipology Short Film

Sweden, 1951. A new society is developing, a society where there is no room for the socially and mentally weak. Gertrud is a 17 year-old girl from a very poor family. Against her...

Category Official Competition
Section Y Gen
Tipology Feature Film

An entomologist finds a new species of bug in the meadow and would be glad to add it to his collection. But the bugs don’t want to be museum objects.

Category Official Competition
Section Little Rascals
Tipology Animation, Short Film

Karl Jonathan and his father move back to his father’s run-down childhood home and find out that the village has been transformed into an extremely rigid security oriented...

Category Official Competition
Section First Screens
Tipology Feature Film