Pinocchio Reborn

2024 | Italy | Matteo Cirillo | Short | 15’ | Produced

The Piranesi Experience, Limbo Film |

In a world where honesty is a weakness and cunning is rewarded, Pinocchio has grown into an adult who still clings to the values of kindness and sincerity instilled in him long ago. But life has not been kind to him. Instead of reaping the rewards of his good heart, he finds himself constantly exploited, deceived, and humiliated by a society that values manipulation over morality. Tired of suffering, he begins to question everything he once believed in.

Desperate for answers, he seeks out a psychologist, hoping to understand if goodness still has a place in a world dominated by opportunism. As the therapy sessions unfold, Pinocchio revisits his past, confronting the choices that shaped him. His wooden innocence has long since turned to flesh, but has the world carved him into something he no longer recognizes?

Through a psychological journey filled with irony and despair, he wrestles with an existential dilemma: should he continue to be the good man he has always strived to be, or should he embrace the cunning of those who have walked over him for so long? The line between morality and survival begins to blur, and Pinocchio is faced with a choice that could change his fate forever.

"Pinocchio Reborn" is a modern fable, a dark and introspective take on the consequences of purity in a ruthless world. Will he remain the honest fool, or will he carve himself into something new?