Pivellina (La)

A film by Rainer FRIMMEL, Tizza Covi

2009 Austria, Italy - Drama

synopsis

Abandoned, 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 teenage boy who lives with his grandma in an adjacent container, Patti starts to search for the girl's mother. La Pivellina is a film about 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.

• cast

  • Patrizia Gerardi
  • Asia Crippa

• crew

  • Producers
  • Rainer Frimmel (Vento Film)
  • Tizza Covi (Vento Film)
  • Screenplay
  • Tizza Covi

• infos

  • Running time
  • 2881 m 6 reels
  • Format
  • 35mm - 1.66

• press reviews

  • Variety Review

awards & nominations

• Cannes 2009 - Director's Fortnight - Europa Cinema Award
• Toronto 2009 - Discovery
• Berlin 2010 Generation

news +

• 05/05/2011 - La Pivellina awarded in Dubrovnik
• 07/02/2011 - La Pivellina awarded at the Grand Diagonale
• 25/01/2011 - La Pivellina : two nominations at the austrian cinema prize (29th of January)
• 08/09/2010 - La pivellina Austrian film for the Oscars
• 31/03/2010 - La pivellina awarded as Best Austrian Film at Diagonale
• 22/01/2010 - Pivellina wins 2 prizes in Angers
• 01/12/2009 - 'La Pivellina' wins Best Film Award!
• 22/05/2009 - "La Pivellina" awarded in Cannes

screenings in festivals & markets +

• Seville 2014
• Filmart in Hong-Kong
• Berlin Film Festival
• Toronto Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival

links

• Variety Review