“Babooska” – International Festivals

Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel’s film “Babooska” International competition and international Scam International Award Cinéma du Réel 2006 was programmed at BAFICI Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, Argentina, April 2010.

It was awarded ex-aequo Best Austrian Documentary 2006 together with Arash’s “Exile Home Movie”. It received a special mention from the “Uno sguardo nuovo” Jury at Alba’s Infinity Film Festival, Italy, march april 2006, the Berlinale Wolfgang Staudte Award and Bolzano Festival’s Public Award.

It has been selected to numerouse festivals: Rennaissance Festival Minneapolis St Paul (United States), Los Angeles Film Festival (United States), Haifa International Film Festival (Israel), The Times BFI London Film Festival (Great Britain), Doclisboa (Portugal), Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic), Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia (Mexico), Duisburger Filmwoche (Germany).

It will be theatricaly released in Austria on November 17th 2006 and has been bought by RAI Sender Bozen.