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ECFA Award Winner

Circusboy

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 (ECFA 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 (ECFA Award), DokFest Kassel 2025,

Study guide: German

World sales address/es:
Pluto (DE)

Sold to:
Across Nations (DE)
Bundesverband Jugend und Film (DE)