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Circus Krone - Manege mit Geschichte

It is considered the largest traveling circus in Europe and is one of the oldest in Germany: Circus Krone celebrated its 100th anniversary a few years ago. However, the history of the family business actually began back in 1870 - when the founding couple toured the fairgrounds. The small animal show became a dazzling entertainment giant.

La Putyka: Kaleidoscope

Crazy jumps on a giant teeterboard, group dance choreography, aerial acrobatics, and trampoline flights. Gags alternate with tricks and rhythmic music with laughter, hypnotic images contrasting with summer parties under the open sky. Tradition meets modernity, seasoned pub-goers mingle with young circus blood. A total of eight acrobats, actors, and dancers flash through the performance like colorful strips in a kaleidoscope. Don't think. Open your eyes, prick up your ears, and let yourself be absorbed by a garish collage of skill and joy.

Losers Cirque Company: Vzduchem

A dance-acrobatic performance based on Richard Bach's book "Jonathan Livingston Seagull." The audience follows a character who has found joy and passion for flying. And it is precisely this passion that allows her to throw herself into everything and push boundaries. He tries new techniques and discovers what his body is capable of, broadening his horizons and pushing his limits. Exhausted, he falls asleep standing up, overcomes a broken wing, and even death. He jumps and falls, again and again.

Vote for Henryk!

German national election campaign 2002: Henryk Wichmann from the conservative party is fighting a lost battle in the Uckermark.

Football As Never Before

In this film, we follow footballer George Best over a 90-minute match against Coventry City, which took place on 12th September 1970. There is no soundtrack and no interview overlaid, just Best doing what he did best - playing football.

Camilo: The Long Road to Disobedience

The award-winning filmmaker Peter Lilienthal is dedicated to this extremely poignant documentary of U.S. military policy and the living conditions of former resistance fighters in Latin America.

Bird's Nest - Herzog & de Meuron in China

Schaub and Schindelm’s documentary follows two Swiss star architects, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, on two very different projects: the national stadium for the Olympic summer games in Peking 2008 and a city area in the provincial town of Jinhua, China.

Novak Djokovic: Refuse to Lose

Novak Djokovic, one of the greatest tennis players of all time. With 86 ATP singles titles, 37 Masters events and 20 Grand Slam's, few tennis players have achieved what Djokovic has. Currently ranked world number one and a record total of 365 weeks on top, Djokovic has dominated the sport for the last 10 years. Things have not always been easy for the world number one. Born in war-torn Belgrade, Serbia, Djokovic developed his skills in some of the harshest conditions imaginable. Despite this he rose to the top of the professional tennis rankings, becoming a national icon and a symbol of unity for the Serbian people.

The Moviemakers: Scorsese

60 years since his directorial debut, Martin Scorsese's life has been dedicated to the past, present and future of cinema. 26 feature films later, the aptly named Caretaker of Cinema continues to push the boundaries of moviemaking.

Katahdin: The Mountain of the People.

This documentary explores the history, geography and folklore of Mount Katahdin, the tallest and most treacherous mountain in the state of Maine.

in-sight

Gerd Conradt's experimental documentary "Ein-Blick" from 1987 captures the rhythms of daily life along Elsenstraße's border in a time-lapse. Over the course of a day, a camera focuses on a house and watchtower within the border zone, snapping one image per second for twelve hours. What unfolds is a surreal ballet of reality, transforming into a slapstick grotesque, all set to the backdrop of evocative piano melodies.

¿Adiós a la Izquierda?

Ghosts of Portal 31

The Crypto Files investigates claims of paranormal activity at Portal 31 in Lynch Kentucky. The Third film in the Crypto Files Series.

Mr. Everything

This documentary follows an African-American man living in Hollywood, California. They said you can't do it all, until he came into the film industry.

Ostindiefararen – Till Kina och hem igen

Great Expectations

Who are the people who will comprise Italy’s future leadership ? Three entrepreneurs offer some responses to the question: Antonio Ambrosetti, founder of a new course called «Leader del Futuro», Federcio Morgantini, a young man whose business ambitions take him to China, and Matteo Storchi, a succesful manager of a family business. The filmmakers want to record these individuals in «their roles as leaders within the society they represent.» So they follow their three protagonists through their working lives. All three are at a crucial stage in their careers: will they succeed in their respective projects? Taking a humorous perspective, navigating both hope and pessimism, the film moves from Italy to China on the heels of these contemporary entrepreneurs who are often destined to lead more through heredity than vocation.

Trace of the future according to Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti

Filmmakers that were selected at Visions du Réel in the past twenty editions celebrate the Festival's anniversary by each making a short movie in which they expose their view of the future.

Greatest Ever Christmas Movies

Famous faces, from Aled Jones “who reveals that he hadnt even seen the famous Snowman until only ten years ago to Gremlins star Zach Galligan and child star of Miracle on 34th Street Mara Wilson, talk about their experiences making some of the most popular festive films. Ollie Lock, Stacey Solomon, Joe Swash and Eamonn Holmes also appear.

Ver a China

A foreign filmmaker is invited to visit China with the task of producing a documentary about tea production in the province of Fujian. A year later, having returned to Brazil, she revisits her images and what was seen in Chinese territory.