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Babooska Director: Tizza Covi, Ranier Frimmel Austria/Italy, 2005 – 100 Minutes	Friday, April 21 - 9:00pm Bell Auditorium : Tickets Saturday, April 22 - 5:00pm Oak Street Cinema: Tickets

Babooska illustrates the daily struggle for survival of modern nomads in Italy. Over the period of one year it follows the young artist Babooska, who runs a traveling circus with her family, on her odyssey through remote areas of the country, including Liguria, Umbria and Tuscany. An unvarnished look behind the scenes of a microcosm on the fringes of society – beyond the usual stereotypes, without commentary, without interviews. It attempts to make what is essential graspable without explanations from the ﬁgures or the authors, but merely by observing people and places. Babooska is a road movie without kitschy travel images. It describes, with melancholy and humor, not only the modern nomads’ dying way of life, but also the general human condition of being on a journey between a glorious past and an uncertain future, between despair and hope that life could always be like a “modern, well-heated circus”. – Berlin Film Festival, 2006 The Italian/Austrian team of Tizza Cozi (Itlay, 1971) and Ranier Frimmel (Austria, 1971) produced their ﬁrst joint project – the documentary Das ist alles – in 2001. Both ﬁlmmakers studied at the Höhere Graﬁsche Lehranstalt in Vienna. Frimmel is also known for the ﬁlms Che bella è la vita (1998), Sieben Szensen (1998), and Aufzeichnungen aus dem Tiefparterre (2000). Producer: Rainer Frimmel Screenwriters: Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel Cinematographer: Rainer Frimmel Editor: Tizza Covi Sound: Tizza Covi Cast: Babooska Gerardi, Michele Pellegrini, Azzurra Gerardi, Marina de Vincentis, Ciccio Gerardi, Patrizia Gerardi, Walter Saabel	SPONSORED BY: University of Minnesota Institute for Global Studies