Filmography

The Circus Filmography is the product of collaboration between students and teacher-researchers from the Department Cinema, Theatre and Live Performance at the Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 University. It is a continuously updated website that is open to contributions, listing all films – fictions, animated films, documentaries, series, etc. – devoted to circus or alluding to it.

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Middle of the moment

Travelling with the acrobats of the French Cirque O, Toua


La Cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children)

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to s


Funny Bones (Les drôles de blackpool)

A struggling stand-up comedian who has always lived in th


Cirkus Ildebrand

In the old fire station of Miss Mirabella, Sarah, Maria a


Faraway, So Close! (Si loin si proche)

Sequel to Wings of Desire. The Berlin Wall collapsed.


Dispara (Outrage)

Reporter Marcos interviews circus equestrian sharpshooter


We’re Back! A dinosaur’s Story (Les Quatre Dinosaures et le Cirque magique)

Four pacific dinosaurs are coveted by devilish Pr.


Shadows and Fog (Ombres et brouillard)

In the Twenties, in a middle-European city.


Midori (Shôjo tsubaki Chika gentô gekiga)

In 1950s Tokyo, a little orphaned girl joins a freak-show


Mazeppa

Mazeppa is the history of a passion.


Die Dumme Augustine

Day in and day out, stupid Augustine has to run the tirin


Ange de feu (Ángel de fuego)

Alma works as a fire-eater and her father as a clown at t


Jacquot de Nantes

Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the 1930s.


Walking a Tightrope (Les Equilibristes)

Author, poet and playwright Marcel Spadice is fascinated


La Voce della Luna

Lunatic, day-dreamer Ivo Salvini hears the moon’s voice e


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