Mini-film retrospective with directors Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel (La Pivellina)

Description/Synopsis: Abandoned 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 grandmother 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. La Pivellina 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. (Karin Schiefer, Austrian Film Commission)

Selected for Europa Cinema Award -Director’s Fortnight.
2009 | Directed by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel | 100 minutes

Free and open to the public!

Location: Humanities Quadrangle L01, 320 York St., New Haven, CT 06511

Presented by Yale Film & Media Studies and the European Studies Council as part of the New Voices Film Series