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It is considered the largest traveling circus in Europe and is one of the oldest in Germany: Circus Krone celebrated its 100th anniversary a few years ago. However, the history of the family business actually began back in 1870 - when the founding couple toured the fairgrounds. The small animal show became a dazzling entertainment giant.

A time-lapse documentary capturing the eighth generation of the Kopecký family of puppeteers through brothers Rosťa and Vítek Novák at a key period in their existence - from 2014, when they acquired their own space called Jatka 78 and first sniffed at more ambitious projects with the new circus company Cirk La Putyka.

A dance-acrobatic performance based on Richard Bach's book "Jonathan Livingston Seagull." The audience follows a character who has found joy and passion for flying. And it is precisely this passion that allows her to throw herself into everything and push boundaries. He tries new techniques and discovers what his body is capable of, broadening his horizons and pushing his limits. Exhausted, he falls asleep standing up, overcomes a broken wing, and even death. He jumps and falls, again and again.

Crazy jumps on a giant teeterboard, group dance choreography, aerial acrobatics, and trampoline flights. Gags alternate with tricks and rhythmic music with laughter, hypnotic images contrasting with summer parties under the open sky. Tradition meets modernity, seasoned pub-goers mingle with young circus blood. A total of eight acrobats, actors, and dancers flash through the performance like colorful strips in a kaleidoscope. Don't think. Open your eyes, prick up your ears, and let yourself be absorbed by a garish collage of skill and joy.

Plural, complex and full of colors, Lalla Rami is a transgender artist with a busy past. A little boy born in Morocco, it is on the Parisian stages that she shines brightly, despite the difficulties of everyday life.

Équarrisseurs

A documentary about Vesna, a single mother who sustains her five children through the small business of making traditional homemade bread.

Gert Wingårdhs Nobelhus

La Oreja de Van Gogh: al descubierto

After being offered an Interrail, Samuel, a young French-Armenian man, teams up with his friend Gabriel to visit Germany. However, unexpected events left them in awe.

Film played at Robert Owen’s School for Children's AV Theatre in New Lanark, set in the year 2200. Time-traveller Harmony tells the story of New Lanark.

In Prison (1957) is a BBC documentary examining daily life inside HMP Strangeways Prison in Manchester. Filmed within the institution, the film observes prisoners and officials as part of a closed system housing hundreds of inmates, focusing on routines, discipline, confinement, and the psychological effects of incarceration. Avoiding dramatization, the documentary presents prison life as an enclosed social world, shaped by regulation, isolation, and repetition, offering a rare contemporary view of Britain’s penal system in the postwar period.

Right now more than 100,000 young Norwegians between the ages of 19 and 29 are engaged in neither work nor studies. In DROPOUT we meet Danielle, Darie and Tiffany, who for different reasons find themselves in this situation. With empathy and insight, director Kristin Heien gives us a glimpse into some of the lives behind the statistics, and helps us understand why some people have a harder time adjusting to the demands of society than others. The result is a thought-provoking humanist documentary which offers valuable perspectives on modern-day Norway and lets us see the unemployment numbers in a new light.

This documentary, made entirely of archival footage shot mainly by amateurs, revisits 50 years of Chilean history. A fascinating lesson in memory, this personal montage adopts a popular, even fringe, perspective to help write a more complete national memory. As the filmmaker asserts in her narration, there’s the history we’re told, the history we live, and the history we tell ourselves. Between the coup d’état of September 11, 1973, and the recent double failure of the new constitution project, this film shows that the people of Chile have long oscillated between excitement and disappointment, accumulating shattered hopes. Rejecting the pessimism that would trap us in collective immobility, Karin Cuyul instead draws on the past to ask how we can continue to dream of the necessary social and political changes.

Carambolage dans une France ordinaire

This film is dedicated to the life and work of the outstanding poet, enlightener, and writer Cholpon (Abdulhamid Suleyman ogli). It portrays the tragic chapters of the poet’s fate, his repression, and exposes the politics of the former Russian Empire and the traitors who led Cholpon to the brink of persecution.

Woord x Macht x Strijd

Italian mondo movie exploring themes of love, sex, eroticism, and perversion.

Ball is a 30-year-old who lives with his parents and works from morning till night, yet doesn’t shy away from parties and the consumer pleasures of urban life. However, in keeping with Thai tradition, he decides to become a monk for a short time. He enrolls in a monastery set in beautiful surroundings, run by a charismatic abbot with an intriguing past.

Award-winning documentary Resilience & Sacrifice follows an emerging musician from Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom who shelved his dreams to raise his family. Years later, he returns to the stage, facing the music industry and a medical crisis that nearly ends his career. A story of grit and passion.