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La Pivellina (2009) - Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel Synopsis: Premiered at the 2009 Cannels Film Festival, La Pivellina, also known as Little Girl is a film about a cosmos of outcasts in present-day Italy: a moving tale of courage and discrimination, of loss and togetherness, a look behind the corrugated-iron fence of a gated community. Abandoned in a park, the two-year-old girl Asia is found by Patti (Patrizia Gerardi), 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 (Tairo Caroli), 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. The film was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it didn't make the final shortlist. Biography of Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel (Director): Born in Bolzano in 1971, Tizza Covi lived in Paris and Berlin before studying photography in Vienna. After finishing her studies she went to Rome where she worked as a photographer. Rainer Frimmel was born in Vienna in 1971, also studied photography. In 2002 Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel founded their film production company Vento Film to be able to produce their films independently. |
