Cirque du Cambodia

Cirque du Cambodia A documentary film about two Cambodians teenagers from a rural village with an incredible dream.

This documentary film tells the story about a very special arts school in Cambodia with an amazing "social circus" program that trains at-risk youths to become circus performing stars. Two of the schools most outstanding students - Sopha and Dina - were so good that they were accepted into the National Circus School of Montreal - one of the world's elite circus schools - across the street from the

world headquarters of Cirque du Soleil, where Sopha and Dina dream of performing someday. This film follows Sopha and Dina over six years on their quest to become the first Cambodians to perform with Cirque du Soleil!

10/08/2025

Cirque du Cambodia sequel In the works?

Could be called: โ€œSon of Cirque du Cambodiaโ€ ๐Ÿ’“๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ˜Š

We are honored that our film about two   from   who dreamed of performing with   will be screened tomorrow in Melbourne,...
08/12/2025

We are honored that our film about two from who dreamed of performing with will be screened tomorrow in Melbourne, Australia to benefit ! The benefit will also feature a remote Q&A with director Joel Gershon.

Wateraid is looking to raise critical funds for water projects in rural communities in Cambodia, so this is a great cause that affects the kinds of communities featured in the film.

If you or anyone you know is , send them the QR code for more info. And if your organization or company wants to screen our award-winning inspirational documentary film, please get in touch!!

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The Illinois college tour for the film continues tonight with a screening at the Spurlock Museum in Urbana-Champaign at ...
04/02/2025

The Illinois college tour for the film continues tonight with a screening at the Spurlock Museum in Urbana-Champaign at 6 PM Tomorrow the screening will take place the Jaime Escalante Room at the Vrooman Center at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. Hope some Normal people and not-so-normal people make it!

Hey everyone, this is not an April Fools Day joke, we have three screenings this week on a mini-Illinois college tour. O...
03/31/2025

Hey everyone, this is not an April Fools Day joke, we have three screenings this week on a mini-Illinois college tour. On April 1st we will show the film at Heartland Community College in Normal, Illinois, on April 2 at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) at the Spurlock Museum, and April 3 in Bloomington at Illinois State University ... with filmmaker Joel Gershon on hand for each. If you are in the middle of Illinois, come see our film this week!

We have some super news! The film is embarking on a mini-midwest college tour on April 1-3, at the University of Illinoi...
03/29/2025

We have some super news! The film is embarking on a mini-midwest college tour on April 1-3, at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Illinois State University and Heartland Community College in Normal, Illinois with filmmaker Joel Gershon on hand. If you are in the area or know anyone in Normal tell them to come see a movie that is anything but normal!


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03/29/2025

We have sone super news! The film is embarking on a mini-midwest college tour on April 1-3, at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Illinois State University and Heartland Community College with filmmaker Joel Gershon on hand. If you are in the area or know anyone in Normal, Illinois tell them to come see a movie that is anything but normal!

For more info check out www.cirqueducambodia.com
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https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/pdf/events/2025-04-02-cirque-du-cambodia-flyer.pastel them to go

Seasons greetings and happy holidays from Cirque du Cambodia, and we have great news ... in 2024, WE GOT INTO COLLEGE!(C...
12/27/2024

Seasons greetings and happy holidays from Cirque du Cambodia, and we have great news ... in 2024, WE GOT INTO COLLEGE!
(College libraries, that is)

That's right, after the film was shown at the annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies, it spurred a host of orders from college libraries wishing to procure the film for their collections! The film is now permanently available at the libraries of University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas, University of Hawaii, Indiana University, Rice University, American University, James Madison University, University of Wisconsin and more.

The academic circuit continues with a mini-midwest college tour in a few months on April 1-3, 2025, as the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Illinois State University and Heartland Community College have invited filmmaker Joel Gershon to speak at several on-campus screenings of the film. If you have a connection to the academic world, we would love to have the film procured in more university libraries and to set up more campus screenings.

If youโ€™ve already seen the film, we hope youโ€™ll recommend it to others and perhaps watch it again this holiday season! Here's the link for the streaming options, including Amazon Prime and a free (with ads) option on Tubi: https://linktr.ee/cirqueducambodia

Otherwise, we hope you flip into the new year with grace and style!!

Best to you,

Joel Gershon
Director, Cirque du Cambodia

The real life story of two dreamers who ran away to join the biggest circus in the world

Film Screening Alert!! Our award-winning   will be showing this Thursday, July 25 at 7 pm in the lovely   area of Vermon...
07/24/2024

Film Screening Alert!! Our award-winning will be showing this Thursday, July 25 at 7 pm in the lovely area of Vermont and director (Joel Gershon)will be on hand for a Q&A afterwards. It will be at the beautiful in .
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Itโ€™s the third time our film will be shown in the . . . Maybe itโ€™s the three songs on the soundtrack that makes our film so popular there!
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The film tells the real life story of two Cambodians from a rural village who went to a special school for the arts near their home and learned to become amazing circus performers. They got to be so good at circus they went on a multi-year quest around the world to Montreal to realize their : to be the first from their country to take the stage with .
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Shout out to the kind folks at who helped get this screening going. Hope to see you there on Thursday!!
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We can't wait to have our next screening in Greensboro, Vermont at the Highland Center for the Arts on July 25 at 7 pm. ...
07/15/2024

We can't wait to have our next screening in Greensboro, Vermont at the Highland Center for the Arts on July 25 at 7 pm. It's a BEAUTIFUL venue and filmmaker Joel Gershon will be on hand for the Q&A. Maybe it's the soundtrack with three Phish songs that attracts the Green Mountain folks to our award-winning documentary. If you know anyone in the Northeast Kingdom area of VT, tell them to come on by!

Special shout out to the good folks of Circus Smirkus for helping set this up! More info about the event here: https://highlandartsvt.org/events/cirque-du-cambodia/@

Happy World Circus Day everyone!! If you can't get to the circus to celebrate this spectacular day, we got you covered! ...
04/16/2024

Happy World Circus Day everyone!! If you can't get to the circus to celebrate this spectacular day, we got you covered! Just watch our award-winning documentary "Cirque du Cambodia" from home! It's the thrilling real-life story about two Cambodians who went on an incredible quest from their home village across the world to Montreal, Canada, to try to become the first from their country to take the stage with Cirque Du Soleil!

If you've seen it before, watch it again, or recommend it someone else to watch! Our film won the Jury Prize at the 2021 Circus International Film Festival (amongst other awards) so if you love circus or just a great story, step right up and click here for your viewing options:

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We were honored to have our film   selected to be screened at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference in beau...
03/16/2024

We were honored to have our film selected to be screened at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference in beautiful . Filmmaker Joel Gershon was on hand for a Q&A and it was a beautiful day in . If you missed it and want to rent our award-winningfilm, please click link in bio to find a stream that suits you!
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