Pa-Ra-Da

After leaving Paris to help out homeless youths in Romania, Miloud (Jalil Lespert) draws upon his formal training as a clown to teach circus skills to street kids in Bucharest. An official selection of the film festivals in Toronto and Venice, this gritty pseudo-documentary portrait of hope and adversity marks the feature debut of director Marco Pontecorvo, son of acclaimed Italian cinema maverick Gillo Pontecorvo.