La Pivellina

La Pivellina
Director
Tizza Covi / Rainer Frimmel
Country
Italy, Austria
Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
Tizza Covi
Cast
Patrizia Gerardi / Walter Saabel / Tairo Caroli / Asia Crippa
Production
Vento Film

Storyline

Abondoned in a park, the two-year-old girl Asia is found by Patti, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in a trailer park in San Basilio on the outskirts of Rome. With the help of Tairo, a teenager who lives with his grandma in an adjacent container, Patti starts to search for the girl's mother and gives the girl a new home for an uncertain period of time.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Berlin International Film Festival 2010
Generation Kplus
Festival de Cannes 2009
Director's Fortnight
Seville European Film Festival 2014
Focus Europa
Gijon International Film Festival 2018
Tizza Covi / Rainer Frimmel

Releases

France (17 of January 2012)
Austria (13 of January 2012)
Italy (7 of January 2012)