The Pickle Family Circus was founded by Lorenzo Pisoni's parents in 1974. The film documents the spirit, the lunacy, the daring, the danger and the dynamics of growing up in a circus family.

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish...

From the Italian 'saltare in banco' – which literally means 'to jump on a bench' – Saltimbanco explo...

Icarus is the main character of Varekai, who falls to the ground, breaking his legs as he does. He i...

A young girl has already seen everything there is to see and her world has lost all meaning. Her ang...
How do you deal with life's curveballs? FIGURE 3 tells trapeze artist Korri Singh Aulakh's story of ...

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to crea...

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' perf...

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...

One man, one camera, one goal...to capture the essence of adventure. An experimental, often abstract...

From the slow waitings for opening of the big top to the loneliness in the dressing room backstage, ...

While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen o...

A story of the world's first female tiger trainer who claimed her love for her tigers was so great s...

The comedian Timoteo is the leader of a cross-dresser circus that has toured through Chile for forty...

The Moșilor Fair is an exercise by a student director who used his film before he had managed to fin...

French filmmaker Laurent Chevallier always wanted to make a documentary on an African circus, but th...

The documentary “Pagliacci” celebrates – in a poetic way – what it means to be a clown. The film add...

Impressionistic glimpses of London life from early morning to rush hour.

This documentary is about the Italian small family circus, based on the old street theatre of the Co...

Aunt Neirud was always present at family gatherings. Neirud was big, strong, and worked in the circu...