Филипп Школьник

This is a poetic film set in the times of Lenin's NEP. A ballet dancer steals a brooch and gives it as a present to another dancer. This is a crime of passion. A mysterious black ball is after the heroine. She runs away from it and manages to give the brooch in an exquisite pirouette movement, as shiny as diamond facets. What gives a stone its dazzling luster are its polished facets. But the real gem is love, and it's much harder to get than any diamond in the world.

Été 1945 : Le Japon est occupé. « Le Soleil » retrace les événements intervenus entre deux décisions historiques prises par l'empereur Hirohito : la reddition sans conditions de son pays face aux Alliés et la renonciation à son ascendance divine. Il reconstitue des scènes de la vie quotidienne de l'empereur, évoque la rencontre de deux personnages que tout oppose, Hirohito et le général MacArthur. Sans forcer l'empereur japonais à prendre des mesures spécifiques, sans le menacer, sans l'humilier, le général américain finit par obtenir ce qu'il veut.

A story about an orphan boy, abandoned by his family. He was raised by his kind adopted mother, and was sold by his adopted father in hardship to a traveling man who eventually, became his teacher and a father-figure. With his teacher, he learned to play music and perform on the street with 3 intelligent dogs and a monkey. He traveled through the towns of France, and through life twist and turn, eventually, lead to the ultimate search for his real family.

Imagine a mix of Repo Man, Oliver! and Pinocchio and you're on the road to grasping the tone of this bizarre Estonian take on Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's character Buratino, a wooden boy (or boyus woodenus, as the doctors in the film refer to him). Buratino's virginal mother wishes upon a star for a son and is immediately answered by what can only be called a rape-splinter. The woman gives birth almost immediately to her little wooden Buratino.