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Jonas and the Backyard Circus (2015)

Name: Jonas and the Backyard Circus
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-05-14T08:17:12+02:00

Documentary | 83 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 83 minuten

Alternative title: Jonas e o Circo sem Lona

Country: Brazil

Directed by: Paula Gomes

IMDb score: 7,3 (101)

Releasedate: 19 November 2015

This movie is not available on US streaming services.

Jonas and the Backyard Circus plot

Thirteen-year-old Jonas's great passion is his backyard circus. He practices clown numbers and acrobatics with his friends, and even gives a Michael Jackson impersonation. The neighborhood children form an enthusiastic audience, Jonas' grandmother encourages him, but his mother has her doubts. After all, she herself gave up her job as a circus artist to give Jonas a good future. And now he neglects his school. When filmmaker Paula Gomes asks Jonas what he thinks is more important, school or circus, he answers politely: "School." But his look says otherwise. Gomes' calm, loving observations emphasize that for Jonas circus and school are two worlds that are difficult to reconcile...