Giffoni 2009: Winona Ryder, Filippo Vitte, Benedetta Valanzano, Luigi Lo Cascio

Winona Ryder

Nunzio Giuliano, Sara Mollaioli, Filippo Vitte

Benedetta Valanzano

Luigi Lo Cascio
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Giffoni 2009: Kasia Smutniak, Alessandro Roja, Filippo Vitte, Carolina Crescenti

Kasia Smutniak

Alessandro Roja

Nunzio Giuliano, Sara Mollaioli, Filippo Vitte

Carolina Crescentini
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Giffoni 2009: Matteo Branciamore, Raoul Bova, Baz Luhrman, Sergio Castellitto

Matteo Branciamore

Raoul Bova

Baz Luhrman

Sergio Castellitto
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Giffoni 2009: Emanuele Bosi, Laura Morante, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Claudio Santamaria

Emanuele Bosi

Laura Morante

Giovanna Mezzogiorno

Claudio Santamaria
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Giffoni 2009: Eva Mendes, Emanuele Bosi, Raoul Bova, Christina Ricci

Eva Mendes

Emanuele Bosi

Raoul Bova

Christina Ricci
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Giffoni 2009: Winona Ryder, Eva Mendes, Paolo Conticini, Gianmarco Tognazzi

Winona Ryder
“There are dark periods, in which cinema seems to be puritan, stagnant,” Ryder was quoted as saying at the Giffoni site, in what was apparently English translated into Italian and then translated back into English. “I hope that this new time, with Barack Obama – and I tell this even if I’m an immigrant couple daughter – let us to leave behind this dark atmosphere which derives from the George Bush government. Some months ago, some teachers have got the sack because of the subject they taught. But I feel that everything will change.”

Eva Mendes

Paolo Conticini

Gianmarco Tognazzi
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Giffoni 2009: Naomi Watts, Sofia Milos, Elio Germano, Claudio Bisio

Naomi Watts

Sofia Milos

Claudio Bisio

Elio Germano
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Giffoni 2009: Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Christina Ricci, Filippo Timi

The 39th annual Giffoni Film Festival, dubbed Italy’s biggest youth film festival, was held in the coastal town of Salerno between July 12-25, 2009. Thirty features and 42 shorts were screened in competition, in addition to dozens of special screenings and events.
Among this year’s award winners were Caroline Link’s A Year Ago in Winter, Breno Silveira’s Once Upon a Time in Rio, David Lee Miller’s My Suicide, and Jesper Waldvogel Rasmussen’s See You.
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Giffoni Film Festival artistic director Claudio Gubitosi; Naomi Watts; Liev Schreiber

Alba Rohrwacher

Christina Ricci

Filippo Timi

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