The classic story is re-imagined as unfolding in Fascist Italy where the wooden puppet learns slowly what it is to be a human & a father to accept a son as he is.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
Dara of Jasenovac (2020)
Ten-year-old Dara becomes the guardian of her toddler brother when her Serb mother is shot at a fascist Croatian camp during WW 2.