On Barbara Kornfeld
One of the most memorable editions of all time is announced that begins tomorrow, Thursday 18 July 2025. It is the number 55 And the festive atmosphere has already invested the small town of the Picentini Mountains: A place for a human scale where this year Luca apolito - Artistic director of the Giffoni Festival - proposes the Becoming Human theme (become humans) It is a need that rises from the deep of the hearts of many of the Giffoners, or the five thousand jurors that until 26 July will have the opportunity to live one of the most significant experiences, training and edifying of their training and personal growth.
"It's the most necessary festival" had sanctioned Francois Truffaut years ago: It is still for its more unique than rare characteristics. First of all for the ability of its founder to represent the double role of safe harbor, although he has done aside in favor of his young people: His team grew inside the Festival, He experienced in his territory with short thematic excursions elsewhere but he did not have to choose to have to leave his land to be able to work. Claudio Gubitosi, The boy who fifty -five years ago gathered around him a group of willing companions and tenaciously chased his dreams, knows how to get aside, carving out new popular and narrative roles, leaving space and inventiveness to his boys.
A hundred works in competition, evaluated by jurors from thirty nations, age group that varies for three to eighteen years. The festival, however, is much more.
The lucky appointment with Giffoni Sport is renewed for the second year, strongly desired by the general manager Jacopo Gubitosi, which last year involved ten thousand people who experienced sports activities on an area of a thousand square meters, Under the guidance of expert masters and sports champions. At the press conference Jacopo specified the strong value that create the bonds that intertwine with Giffoni: It is true. Many small producers, Young Filmakers, amateurs, students have in GFF the opportunity to meet, comparison and to be able to dialogue with entrepreneurial realities that would hardly take them into consideration in different contexts.
Giffoni Music Concept among the expected returns, who will see jurors and ordinary people every evening enjoy the outdoor concerts of Italian big Italians and emerging artists: to present them Ellen knees.
In the country, however, the street fest persists with initiatives involving anyone who wants to participate: Games of all kinds, Extremely inclusive initiatives, theater. In the same way, In the Garden of Oranges it was decided to let the mayors read the fairy tales and to project significant films of this fifty years, Obviously - for Giffoni - usable free of charge by anyone. Within the San Francesco convent, Some jurors from the Impact section will participate in Giffoni Food Show. Two other young people from the Impact section - or boys from 18 ai 30 Years - they will have the opportunity to confront each other with prominent characters of politics, of culture, of institutions, of the academic world, show, of cinema.
Clearly there are many prestige previews, On the Festival website are widely revealed and I will write from time to time, as well as the expected talent: characters from Blue Carpet worthy of Cannes and Hollywood.
Among the dreams of the jurors and the Festival's working group there is the hope that Pope Leo XIV will be one day present. The Pope shows enormous tenderness for children and for young people: Since the beginning of his pontificate, When a girl asked him to autograph his Bible and admitted to "having to exercise to sign with the new name", Then when he received a biscuit as a gift from a little girl in St. Peter's Square, A hug from a child who was meeting him in the ducal room of the Apostolic Palace, When he received six hundred boys in the Nervi room for the first day of the initiative "When the other is all-summer boys in the Vatican" who hosted in the classroom Paolo VI Three hundred Roman children and three hundred ten Ukrainians for a very inclusive initiative (Among others also the group of Mons. Vincenzo De Luca, Bishop of the diocese of Teggiano-Polostro).
Pope Leo XIV is promoter of peace bridges, In Giffoni these bridges have been built for fifty -five years, in compliance with the differences, of inclusion: So the dream formulated is not a utopia is a seed of hope that in the year of the Jubilee we have learned to be a sign of certainty.
