Carnival Movies

During Rio's Carnival, a street cleaner struggles with the loss of his sister and his work obligations. Amid the celebrations, he finds a lost child...

Festive Land examines one of the largest and most extraordinary popular celebrations in the world, the week-long Carnival that brings more than two...

A kaleidoscopic celebration of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival. Arts Council of Great Britain.

The last days of summer captured on 16mm.

A 2008 short made in accompaniment with Our Beloved Month of August, documenting Gomes's and his crew's hapless search, during 2007's carnival, for...

A documentary portrait of sideshow impresario Wally Shufflebottom, Jr.

The Other Side of Carnival (2010) is a 45-minute award-winning documentary that explores Carnival's social and economic impact on Trinidad &...

A mechanical machine displays a reel of objects with music box accompaniment.

In Dunkirk, during the carnival, a strange man find himself alone in the deserted streets. He wanders around, finally arriving on the beach where he...

Although it was actually an impersonal commissioned film, the director's style is clearly recognizable. Once again he manages to make something that...

200 years of Cologne Carnival! The most colourful and loudest festival in Cologne celebrates a big birthday. In February 1823, a few men from...

Why does everyone want to take part in the Rottweiler Narrensprung, even though the costumes are expensive, the wooden masks uncomfortable and the...

Silent documentary about the Caracas Carnival.

Documentary about the kolla people living in North Western Argentina.

Short documentary on a carnival procession.

Documentary short that explores the meaning of the locals’ African identity through the Carnival festivities.

Pieck finds Barnaby's Magic Carnival of Marvels, a place where imagination and fun come hand in hand.

Weird and wonderful characters entertain the crowds in this summer's day procession at Pwllheli, Gwynedd.

Antonio is jealous of his wife Clara and follows her everywhere; one day he sees her walking with a man on the street. He immediately becomes...