CIRCUSBOY

ZIRKUSKIND

By Julia LEMKE, Anna KOCH

PLUTO FILM DISTRIBUTION NETWORK GMBH - as SALES World

Documentary - Completed 2025

Every day is magical if your playground is the circus.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlin European Film Market (EFM) 2025
Berlinale 2025
Generation K+
    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Family
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 86 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Julia LEMKE, Anna KOCH
    • Producer(s)
    • Katharina BERGFELD (Flare Film ), Martin HEISLER (Flare Film )
    • 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.