• More action adventure than traditional documentary, Lion Ark follows the world’s most ambitious and daring animal rescue, with a narrative compiled from film, interviews, conversations and reactions as events unfolded. How attitudes to animals were changed in Bolivia, illegal circuses pursued and closed, and 25 lions airlifted to freedom.

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News

Lion Ark to roar into London this weekend!

Join filmmakers and ADI rescue team leaders Jan Creamer and Tim Phillips at the FREE Lion Ark screening and Q&A on Saturday 19th August, 5pm.

Lion Ark tours Italy to stop circus suffering!

ADI’s multi award-winning movie Lion Ark continues to tour Italy as part of the campaign with LAV to secure a ban on wild animals in circuses.

Italian screening at CinemAmbiente Film Festival!

Lion Ark will screen at the CinemAmbiente 20th Environmental Film Festival in Turin on Saturday 3 June 2017.

Free screening in Warsaw, Poland

Acclaimed rescue movie roars into Warsaw to support campaign to end animal circus acts.

Lion Ark to screen across Poland!

Lion Ark will premiere in Poland at a series of public screenings across the country.

Lion Ark roars into the Italian Senate!

The award-winning film Lion Ark, charting the Animal Defenders International (ADI) rescue operation to enforce legislation banning animal circuses in Bolivia, will have its Italian premiere in the Senate on Wednesday 15 March 2017.