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
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.
Screenplay: Tizza Covi
Cinematography: Rainer Frimmel
Editing: Tizza Covi
Sound: Tizza Covi
Cast: APatrizia Gerardi, Tairo Caroli, Walter
Saabel, Asia Crippa
Prizes and selections:
Festival de Cannes 2009 (Quinzaine des
Réalisateurs), Toronto International Film Festival
2009 (Discovery), Karlovy Vary International
Film Festival 2009 (Open Eyes), Mostra
Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema Pesaro 2009)
Production:
Vento Film
(Wien, T + 43 14060392;
contact@ventofilm.com;
www.ventofilm.com)
Distribution:
Officine Ubu
(Milan, T +39 0269311631; F +39 0260730784; distribuzione@officineubu.com; www.officineubu.com)
World sales:
Film Distribution
(Paris, T +33 153103399; F +33 153103398;
info@filmsdistribution.com; www.filmsdistribution.com)
Nuovo Cinema Aquila - 11 Nov, 18.30