Directed by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Looking for her lost dog, a middle-aged circus worker, Patti (Patrizia Gerardi), instead finds an abandoned two-year old child in a playground. In this engaging unsentimental tale of human decency and solidarity, the little orphan finds home and family with circus folks in a trailer park on the outskirts of Rome. As they search for the mother, Patti and her friends and neighbors slowly but surely fall in love with the kid.
Drawing on their background in documentary, filmmakers Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel naturally depict the easygoing rapport among generations in a small community where everybody depends on one another. The superb acting brings us close to a marginalized group rarely depicted with such unpretentious dignity, showing their joie de vivre and infectious family spirit.
2009. Austria/Italy. 100 min.
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ABOUT THE DIRECTORS:
Tizza Covi (b. 1971, Bolzano, Italy) lived in Paris and Berlin before studying photography at the Graphische Lehranstalt in Vienna. After finishing her studies she went to Rome, where she worked as a freelance photographer. She has won several scholarships for her photographic work. Rainer Frimmel (born in Vienna, Austria, in 1971) also graduated from the Graphische Lehranstalt’s photography program. He has received scholarships in Rome, Paris, and New York for his photographic work. In 2002, Covi and Frimmel founded their film production company, Vento Film, to produce their films independently.
