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Tairo is a lion tamer who lives happily among circus caravans with his acrobat girlfriend. In spite of his burly exterior, he hides a sensitive and truly gentle personality. After losing his good-luck charm, the superstitious young man leaves on a picaresque odyssey across Italy in search of the man who gifted him with the object many years before: a former circus strongman. At the threshold of fiction and documentary, this adventure takes place in a magical world where imagination meets reality. Locarno and Toronto film festivals, 2016.
Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
Covi: 1971, Bolzano, Italy. Rimmel: 1971, Vienna, Austria. They studied photography at the Vienna Higher College for Graphic Art and for ten years have been exploring the circus universe in their films. Filmography: Das ist alles (2001), Babooska (Berlim Film Festival 2005), Little Girl (Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival 2009), Shine of Day (Locarno and BAFICI 2012) and The Photographer in Front of the Camera (2014).
