The annual Giffoni Film Festival
for young people opens near Salerno in July with over 100 long,
short and documentary films exploring love and friendship,
immigration, bullying and other complex and sensitive issues.
The films in competition have been selected from over 4,500
entries and will be judged by a jury of 4,150 young people from
all over the world.
There are 24 short films in competition in the Elements 3+
section for the youngest viewers, including Dummysaurs: The
Impossible Tanning and Sissy's Dream respectively by Italian
directors Luca Bigliazzi and Fabrizio Gammardella.
Stories of friendship, courage and determination
characterise the section Elements +6, which will see the world
preview of Zip & Zap and the Captain's Island by Oskar Santos,
the sequel to Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang that triumphed in
the same section in 2014.
The section also includes Brothers of the Wind by Gerardo
Olivares about the friendhip between Lukas and a baby eagle,
which will be distributed in Italy from September 29.
The section Generator +13 focuses on the problems of
adolescence, current affairs and historical atrocities, with
Lola Doillon's Fanny's Journey set in 1943 and Kai Wessel's Fog
in August telling the true story of 13-year-old Ernst Lossa who
is sent to a psychiatric hospital in the line-up.
My Name Is Emily by Simon Fitzmaurice and starring Evanna
Lynch as the courageous girl who tries to free her father from a
psychiatric ward is in competition in the section Generator +16,
while Generator +18 for the festival's oldest jury members
includes films from Colombia, Belgium, Germany, France and the
United States among others.
The festival runs in Giffoni Valle Piana from July 15-24.
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