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UFA Documentary produziert die dreiteilige Dokuserie „Roncalli – Manege der Macht“, die ab 21. Dezember in der Ard-Mediathek und am 4. Januar im Ersten zu sehen ist.

Bernhard Paul im Interview auf Mallorca (Credit: Ndr/Bernd Hermes)

2026 feiert der Circus Roncalli sein 50-jähriges Jubiläum. In der dreiteiligen Dokuserie „Roncalli – Manege der Macht“ erzählen die beiden Regisseure Lukas Hoffmann und Simon Tanschek zusammen mit Dramaturg und Autor Christoph Mathieu die Geschichte von Bernhard Paul, der von den Zirkusgrößen für seinen Circus Roncalli zunächst belächelt wird. Dennoch betrachten sie ihn mit Argwohn und so bringen Intrigen, Verrat und öffentliche Demontagen Bernhard Pauls Traum immer wieder ins Wanken.

André Heller hilft ihm schließlich, seinen Traum in die Tat umzusetzen. Nach einem Machtkampf mit Heller zieht Paul mit seinem Zirkus von Österreich nach Deutschland, wo der Circus Roncalli schließlich eine Wiederauferstehung feiert und als erster westlicher Zirkus hinter den Eisernen Vorhang nach Moskau eingeladen wird.

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In 1987 in Hamburg, Germany, the first ever “art amusement park” opened to the public, featuring works by legendary artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and even Salvador Dali. For three short months, families came together to experience the artistic oddities of the park — before the whimsical creations were soon forgotten. Locked away in 44 shipping containers for 36 years, the rides and pieces created for the original Luna Luna were seemingly forgotten.

Now, thanks to curation and restoration provided by Drake, fans and art aficionados are once again able to experience these one-of-a-kind works, up close and personal, at Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy in Los Angeles.

Tucked away among industrial warehouses in downtown L.A., the park features 19 rare and pristinely restored works by many of the world’s most well-known modern artists. It is divided into two main rooms for viewing.

On the first side, there’s a painted chair ride designed by Kenny Scharf.

Berlin -- Richard Loncraine's "My One and Only," a '50s-era comedy starring Renee Zellweger and Kevin Bacon, was squeezed into the competition lineup for this year's Berlin International Film Festival, barely a week before the event kicks off.

Zellweger plays a glamorous single mom on the hunt for a rich man to foot the bill for her and her sons' lifestyle. Produced by Merv Griffith Entertainment and Ray Gun Prods., "My One and Only" will have its world premiere in Berlin. Essential Entertainment is handling international sales.

Berlin also added Lone Scherfig's Sundance favorite "An Education" with Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina and Emma Thompson and Davis Guggenheim's music documentary "It Might Get Loud" for its Berlinale Special Galas, ensuring the films will get the red carpet treatment without any of the pressure of competition.

All three films should give an added boost of star power to...

SINGAPORE -- With a selection most distinctive for its politically and religiously controversial films, the 16th Singapore International Film Festival is set to run Thursday to May 2 with 350 features, shorts and animation titles from 45 countries. Among the films screening are Michael Moore's Oscar-winning documentary Bowling for Columbine; the 9/11-themed collection of shorts 11'09"01; Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer's Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary, documenting an interview with Adolf Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge; and Peter Mullan's 1960s Catholic drama The Magdalene Sisters.

LONDON -- Organizers have unveiled the runners in this year's race for the European Film Academy's best documentary award as well as the names of the jurors who will decide which film is first past the post. Among the nine feature-length docs competing for EFA's Prix Arte, to be presented at a Dec. 7 ceremony in Rome, is Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's Lost in La Mancha, which chronicles Terry Gilliam's trials and tribulations when trying to adapt The Adventures of Don Quixote to the big screen. The other titles in the running are Even Benestad's All About My Father, Enzo Balestrieri and Stefano Moser's Clown in'Kabul, Nicolas Philibert's To Be and to Have, Damian Pettigrew's Federico Fellini: I'm a Born Liar, Andre Heller and Othmar Shmiderer's Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats and Jacques Perrin's Le peuple migrateur (Winged Migration), Christian Bauer's Missing Allen and Stefan Jarl's The Bricklayer. The jury members are U.S.-based Russian documentary Marina Goldovskaya, French producer Luc Martin-Gousset and German film school director Simone Stewens. The documentary prize is presented in association with French-German cultural channel Arte.