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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 2017 - 14.22 JULY

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A cruel war has taken away two brothers’ home. Their mother protects them under her arms and fosters the seed of their new life. Anxious her sons could come in danger if they...

Category Official Competition
Section Generator +18
Tipology Animation, Short Film

Behind the Wall is the story of Nadia, an over-protected five-year-old girl who lives in a Casablanca slum separated from the rest of the city by the wall that surrounds it. She...

Category Official Competition
Section Generator +18
Tipology Short Film, Fiction

Nine year old Anna has moved to a new town. Anna's mother sends her out to make some friends, but the children in the playground are unwelcoming. Apart from one boy, Búi. He...

Category Official Competition
Section Elements +6
Tipology Short Film

Sicily, fascist period. A shadow show performer is confined to an island with a lighthouse because during one of his shows he uses his art to make fun of Mussolini. A fortuitous...

Category Official Competition
Section Generator +18
Tipology Animation, Short Film

With his huge wings on his back, Spass is different from the rest of the dragons in Dragonville. When he discovers that he can fly, society considers him unusual. While Spass...

Category Official Competition
Section Elements +3
Tipology Animation, Short Film

Dunia’s mother drives through the night with the nine-year-old girl in the passenger seat, then pulls off into the woods by the side of the road. After telling Dunia to keep a...

Category Out of competition
Section Made in Qatar
Tipology Short Film

Gionatan is nine years old, but he has the eyes of a man. In a waiting room of an emergency room, he is waiting for his mother who is getting examined some facial injuries. With...

Category Out of competition
Section Parental Control
Tipology Short Film

In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s devotion to his home annoys a quartet of insatiable beasts....

Category Official Competition
Section Elements +3
Tipology Animation, Short Film

Out in the beautiful quiet of the desert, a man teaches his young sons how to track and hunt. Frustration leads to an apparently harmless struggle between the two brothers – but...

Category Official Competition
Section Made in Qatar
Tipology Short Film

Helped by her self-made flying mechanical creatures, a young inventor and a pint-sized superhero defeat the town bullies and find an unexpected friendship.

Category Official Competition
Section Elements +6
Tipology Short Film