There are places that survive the grayness of their time thanks to the stubborn devotion of those who love them. In the Sarrià of the 1960s, while Francoism was trying to silence the Catalan language and culture, one family raised a circus tent and decided that wonder was a human right. That family was the one of Tortell Poltrona, and that was the beginning of Circ Cric.
Circ Cric is a graphic documentary that recovers this memory with the rigor of chronicle and the freedom of lyricism. Its narrator is Puça Orzowei, a tiny and ironic star who lives among the clown’s hair and guides us through decades of circus, forbidden language, and dignity upheld against all odds.
But the story does not stop in the Montseny, where the creative center of Circ Cric now beats with life. The work takes us to the refugee camps of Yugoslavia, to the jungles of Colombia, to the coasts of Sri Lanka: the places where Clowns Without Borders was born, founded on the idea that laughter can restore dignity where everything else has failed.
A work about circus as a universal language. About resistance as a way of life. And about how one family decided, in the darkest moments, that joy was not a luxury.