Films by A. Schütze

Germany 2008
by A. Schütze

Mustafa is eleven years old, and does not really have a childhood. As a street-kid in Bucharest, he leads a sad and dangerous life amid drugs, prostitution and violence. If it was not for the Parada Circus, he and twenty other street-children wouldn’t have a home. It is here, during the daytime, they train to be circus performers, get a warm meal, a change of clothes and school lessons.Mustafa says: I miss having a house a bed, a table, and a knife and fork and a spoon and a cooking pot. I am