Innovative Film Austria 10/11

Tizza Covi|Rainer Frimmel
La Pivellina
132 International Festival Screenings
Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Toronto …
36 International Awards
Cannes (Europa Cinemas Label), Pesaro (Best Documentary) …
Theatrical Releases in 28 countries
The most successful artistic film in Italy 2009
Our decision was unanimous. La Pivellina is a film
with a big heart – a generous, unpretentious and
optimistic look at society’s outcasts that makes
no moral judgments. The filmmakers’ background
in documentaries gives their first feature film a
real naturalistic credibility, drawing the audience
in and engaging them. The acting is superb. We
feel the universal themes and the warmth of the
cross-generational relationships in the film could
have a real impact across Europe with audiences.
Jury statement CANNES
La Pivellina Abandoned like Moses in a wicker basket, the two-year-old girl Asia is found
by Patti, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in San Basilio on the outskirts
of Rome in a trailer park. With the help of Tairo, a 13-year-old boy who lives with his
grandma in a neighbouring mobile home, Patti starts to search for the girl’s mother. What
the audience gets to see is a cosmos of outcasts in present-day Italy: a tale of courage
and discrimination, of loss and togetherness, a look behind the corrugated-iron fence of
a gated community.
Austria 2009 Italian (Ger/Eng/Fr sub)
S-16 mm/Blow up 35 mm 1:1.66 Dolby Digital 100 min
Premiere May 2009 Cannes
Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
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