Film Pinoc

An investigation into why so many conservative Chileans continue to be supporters of the brutal Pinochet dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s.

The horrifying story of what went on inside General Pinochet's secret prisons.

Comedy, Spoofs and Satire - Loosely inspired by the timeless tale of Pinocchio, the wooden boy whose nose grows every time he tells a lie, this sexually charged bedtime story for adults follows the misadventures of a man blessed with an uncommon appendage between his legs. In a convoluted plot involving angels, God and a talking penis, Tom sets out to win the woman of his dreams but must first learn to master his own member.

The story of Pinocchio who is swallowed by Moby-Dick, is told through a Japanese traditional technique "ABURIDASHI" (Invisible ink animation).

Opera North’s enchanting staging of The Adventures of Pinocchio, Jonathan Dove’s 21st opera, is a wittily inventive feast for the eyes and ears.

A young man with the brain of a child, nicknamed Pinocchio , lives and works in a hospice run by an evil manager, assisting the elderly and burying them once dead. Through a twist of fate he moves to the US with luxurious living and the world of high finance. Bewildered, embarrassed and unhappy at the new situation, he is soon caught by nostalgia for his old life and decides to run away.

Pinocchio was tired of being a puppet in the Land of Toys. Living without responsibilities, without any merit, without any respect for the environment he's living in and with no thoughts about the future made him a donkey. He decided to meet Geppetto and find a way to return to his human form.

In the '80s, Tito, a 17 year old boy, faces a difficult choice: leave school and follow the road to university or front his past and take on a battle against the dictatorship. Motivated by Cecilia, who he secretly loves, and his father, Tito passes from an adolescence without worries to the responsibility of taking justice into his own hand. Integrity mixed with commitment, will crossed by want, fear associated with the pleasure of adrenaline, the reasons behind the violence, are the contradictions of Tito and his friends. In the end, Tito and his opponent Ricardo, a police officer who he knows since childhood, end up facing each other in a terrifying game. The type of game in which nobody wins.

It is Christmas. Pursued by the guards, Pinocchio decides to raise some money by participating in a procession. To capture him, the guards decide to burn all the dolls at the stake... but Pinocchio's good heart will save them. When the danger seems to have escaped, a guard discovers and wounds him, but the Blue Fairy will put everything right.

This low-budget Pinocchio transposition was made completely in Sardinia by a non-professional cast.

As a foulness shall ye know Them. Their hand is at your throats, yet ye see Them not; and Their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. The wind gibbers with Their voices, and the earth mutters with Their consciousness. They bend the forest and crush the city, yet may not forest or city behold the hand that smites. The ice desert of the South and the sunken isles of Ocean hold stones whereon Their seal is engraven. They walk unseen. They Live.

Using her 2004 series of eighty-two drawings, Circus Lives from Hell, as an unconventional “script,” feminist artist Ellen Cantor (1961–2013) worked on her most ambitious project, Pinochet Porn, for the last five years of her life. Interweaving fragments of the lives of five people variously affected by Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile, the film is both an experimental epic and a “soap opera,” as it explores the tragic and comical relationship between power and sexuality

September 11th 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the military coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile. The dictator took power - and kept it - through the use of terror & sadistic torture. The West chose to look the other way.

A cricket teaches a piece of wood how to act normal.