A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.

Directed and edited by Esfir Shub. A devastating chronicle of Tsarist Russia from the eve of World War I until its brutal demise in the revolutions of February and October 1917, The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty comprises hundreds of films that Esfir Shub unearthed and rescued from damp cellars and other neglected corners of the Soviet Union, including newsreels and home movies taken by the Tsar’s own cameramen. Using the film splice as a cudgel, Shub contrasts the Imperial Family in opulent ballrooms, regal processions, and garden tea parties with the backbreaking toil of the masses, a bitter satire that makes the Revolution seem both historically inevitable and triumphant. One of the great pleasures of this Vertov retrospective is rediscovering the work of certain largely forgotten women filmmakers of the Soviet avant-garde, including Elizaveta Svilova, Vertov’s editor and wife, and Shub, who pioneered “found footage” cinema and was instrumental in the development of dialectical montage, collaborating with Sergei Eisenstein on the shooting scripts of Strike and Potemkin. (from moma.org)

本片根据张天冀同名童话小说改编。小学生王葆（徐方）正垂头丧气做他最头疼的数学题目时，听到奶奶对妹妹讲宝葫芦的故事，“有了这个宝贝呀，要什么就会有什么。”于是便想起好事来，结果，他的梦想居然成真了！某天他在湖边垂钓时，湖心冒出一个奶奶所描绘的宝葫芦（茂路 配音）。然而，宝葫芦却给他的生活带来诸多尴尬。他到学校图书馆借《科学画报》，同学肖民生（陈荣华）刚刚把书还来，其他等待借这本书的同学还没动手，它已经跑到了他的书包里。在文娱室里，他与同学下象棋，对方的一只马十分厉害，他便想吃掉它，刹那间，这只马猛然飞进他的嘴里。等等类似的事，令王葆认识到宝葫芦是害人的坏东西，遂决定向同学们揭露它的秘密。

你想活的话，就闭嘴。知道的不要说，听到的不要记。被秘密围绕的她们的世界，直到怀着疑问进棺材的那一天，关于自身所有的记录都消失了，这就是宫女。朝鲜时代，在气氛肃杀的宫中，除了皇帝，其他人就是连死，也不能自己选择。宫女月伶（徐英姬饰）被发现吊死在房梁上，聪慧的千伶（朴珍熙饰）经过对尸体的检验，怀疑月伶死于他杀。为了替死于非命的月伶讨回公道，千伶决定将此事追查到底。她进一步查出月伶生下了一个孩子，但下落不明，除此之外，就什么线索也没有了。另一方面，尚宫命令所有的宫女隐蔽此次的自杀事件，只有把真实隐瞒下去的宫女活在迷宫一样的阴谋中，人心惶惶。郑伶（全慧珍饰）把月伶生前写给意中人的情信交予千伶，千伶想进一步了解事情的来龙去脉，但郑伶似是跟谁有默契一样，只字不说。宫女神秘死去的传闻象雪球一样越滚越大，为了显示自己的“领导有方”，尚宫把所有行为有异的宫女公开严厉地惩戒，并计划找一些宫女当杀害月伶凶手的替罪羊。为了挽救无辜的生命，千伶决心尽快查出真相。到底在死去的月伶背后，隐藏着什么？在处处沼泽的皇宫，千伶可以顺利使此案水落石出吗？