Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema (2022) is a short documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Thirty-seven minutes on how a wooden boy was brought to life one frame at a time.

The camera steps inside the stop-motion workshops. You see animators nudge puppets a fraction of a millimeter, carve and paint surfaces, then watch hundreds of tiny adjustments add up to real movement. Del Toro walks through the idea behind the project, with voices from Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Ewan McGregor and Christoph Waltz dropping in. Javier Antonio Soto directs the special.

This one rewards people who care about the craft more than the finished scene — no plot recap, just the honest backstage of handmade animation. Stream Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema online on iFILM.