Year of Production 2025
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- Arco, France, 2025
- Badgers, The, Norway, 2025
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- Billy the Cowboy Hamster, France, 2025
- Boy at the Edge of the World, The, Poland, Turkey, Spain, 2025
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- Brightly Shining, Norway, 2025
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- Brother, Poland, 2025
- Bürglkopf, Austria, 2025
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- Bumblebee's Summer, Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025
- Captain Sabertooth and the Countess of Grel, Norway, 2025
- CARAVAN, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Italy, 2025
- Castle, The, Italy, France, 2025
- Checkered Ninja 3, Denmark, 2025
- Chickenhare and the Secret of the Groundhog, Belgium, France, 2025
- Christy, Ireland, Great Britain, 2025
- Circusboy, Germany, 2025
- Comeback, Belgium, Netherlands, 2025
- Cotton Queen, Germany, France, Palestine, Egypt, Quatar, Saudi-Arabia, Sudan, 2025
- Cricket Dreams, Netherlands, 2025
- Crown Prince and the Return of the Tyrant, The, Sweden, 2025
- Dancing Queen in Hollywood, Norway, 2025
- Dandelion's Odyssey, France, Belgium, 2025
- Decorado, Spain, 2025
- Defiant, Finland, 2025
- Detective Bruno. Baltic Gold, Poland, 2025
- DJ Ahmet, North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia, 2025
- Dreamers, The, France, 2025
- Ella & Friends – Operation Otter, Finland, 2025
- Elvis Starling, Slovenia, 2025
- Enzo, France, Belgium, Italy, 2025
- Fantastique, Belgium, France. Netherlands, 2025
- Fichtelberg, Czech Republic, 2025
- Fleak, Finland, France, Malaysia, Poland, 2025
- Flophouse America, Norway, Netherlands, USA, 2025
- Forever With You, Italy, 2025
- Fränk, Estonia, 2025
- Ghost School, Germany, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, 2025
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- Girls Don't Cry, Germany, 2025
- Goat Girl, Romania, Spain, 2025
- Grow, Great Britain, 2025
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- High School Heist, Czech Republic, 2025
- I Shall See, Netherlands, 2025
- If I Die Today, Denmark, 2025
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- Little Caribou, Ireland, 2025
- Little Sister, The, France, Germany, 2025
- Little Trouble Girls, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, 2025
- Live For Me, Netherlands, Luxembourg, 2025
- LONEY & HAVENDER, Germany, Czech Republic, 2025
- Lotte & Totte - My first friend , Denmark, 2025
- Luminous Life, A, Portugal, France, 2025
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- Mary Anning, Switzerland, Belgium, 2025
- Maya 2, France, 2025
- Meteors, France, 2025
- Mira, Denmark, 2025
- Miss Moxy, Netherlands, Belgium, 2025
- Momo, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, 2025
- Mortimers, The, Spain, 2025
- My Life in Versailles –The Movie, France, Luxembourg, 2025
- Ninja Motherf*cking Destruction, Germany, 2025
- North, Norway, 2025
- Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake, Spain, France, Belgium, Chile, Switzerland, 2025
- Only on Earth, Denmark, Spain, 2025
- Our Wildest Days, Greece, France, Belgium, Germany, 2025
- Papa Bear, Russia, 2025
- Paternal Leave, Germany, Italy, 2025
- Pets on a Train, France, 2025
- Pixie. The New Beginning, Poland, Czech Republic, 2025
- Prank, Germany, Switzerland, 2025
- Pretty Young Love, Denmark, 2025
- Promised Sky, France, Tunisia, Quatar, 2025
- Pumuckl and the Big Misunderstanding, Germany, 2025
- Punching the World, Germany, 2025
- Pupil, The, Netherlands, Belgium, 2025
- Quest, The, Hungary, 2025
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- Ready or Not, Ireland, 2025
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- Rufus – The Sea Serpent Who Could Not swim, Norway, Belgium, 2025
- Sandbag Dam, Croatia, Lithuania, Slovenia, 2025
- School of Magical Animals 4, The, Germany, 2025
- Second Diary of Paulina P., The, Croatia, 2025
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- Siblings, Italy, 2025
- Skiff, Belgium, Netherlands, 2025
- Slackers, Germany, 2025
- Sleepless City, Spain, 2025
- Small Dogs Bark Loud, Norway, 2025
- Soft Leaves, Belgium, 2025
- Songbirds' Secret, The, France, 2025
- Spiked, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, 2025
- Spiked aka Tally Ho!, Luxembourg, Great Britain, France, Belgium, 2025
- Stitch Head, Germany, Luxembourg, 2025
- Sugar Candy, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2025
- Summer Beats, France, 2025
- Summer Book, The, Finland. USA, Great Britain, 2025
- Summer Camp, France, Switzerland, 2025
- Summer in Summerby, A, Germany, 2025
- Sunu Gaal, our Cayuco, Spain, 2025
- Super Furball and the Lying Squirrel, Finland, 2025
- Tafiti – Across the Desert, Germany, 2025
- Tales From the Magic Garden, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, France, 2025
- Terra Vil, Italy, Portugal, 2025
- Têtes Brûlées, Belgium, 2025
- Thanks for Nothing, Germany, 2025
- They Call Me Danka, Lithuania, 2025
- Three Investigators, The – Carpathian Dog, Germany, 2025
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- Treasure of Barracuda, The, Spain, 2025
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Elephant, Netherlands, 2025
- Ugly Stepsister, The, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Denmark, 2025
- Unicorns, Italy, 2025
- Vlam, Netherlands, 2025
- Wheelie, Netherlands, 2025
- Whispers in the Woods, France, 2025
- Wild Foxes, Belgium, France, 2025
- Woodwalkers 2, Germany, Austria, Belgium, 2025
- Woozle and Pip: Adventure in the Magic Garden, Netherlands, 2025
Award WinnerCircusboy
English title: Circusboy
Original title: Zirkuskind
German title: Zirkuskind
Germany, 2025
Director: Lemke, Julia / Koch Anna
Production company: Flare Film
Co-producers: HR, SWR, MDR
Age recommendation: 8 years and up
Film genre: Documentary
Synopsis:
Eleven-year-old Santino is a child of the circus. He loves to spend time with his eighty-year-old great-grandfather, one of Europe‘s last great circus directors, who has become his best friend. Together, they share heartwarming stories: Stories of friendship with an elephant, of farewells, of new beginnings and life on the road. "Circusboy" chronicles the lives of these modern nomads, capturing a young boy‘s experience growing up among an extended family and animals - a life without a safety net, as free as a bird.
Festivals:
Berlin Generation 2025 (awarded), Kristiansand CFF 2025, Zlin CFF 2025 ( Award), Golden Sparrow CFF Erfurt/Gera 2025, Kinofest Lünen 2025, Munich CFF 2025, BIKY CFF Busan 2025, TIFF Junior CFF Tromsø 2025, Zurich IFF 2025, Michel CFF Hamburg 2025, Young Horizons IFF Warsaw 2025, Doxs Ruhr Bochum 2025 ( Award), DokFest Kassel 2025, Cinepaenz Cologne 2025, Kinolino CFF Dresden 2025, KIJUKO CFF Bremen 2025 (awarded), Osnabrück IFF 2025, Bielefeld CFF 2025, Riga IFF 2025, Münster CFF 2025, Filem'On CFF Brussels 2025, Doxs Ruhr 2025 ( Award), Augenblick FF Strasbourg 2025, Piccolo Grande Cinema CFF Milano 2025, Duesseldorf CFF 2025, Gijón IFF 2025, Vienna CFF 2025 (special mention), Steiermark CFF Graz 2025 (awarded), Stuttgart CFF 2026, Bavarian Film Award as best film for children 2026, Award 2026
Study guide: German
Website: Digital Film Analysis Tools (German)
World sales address/es:
Pluto (DE)
Sold to:
Across Nations (DE)
Bundesverband Jugend und Film (DE)