Event

Babooska

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