i‘m not a robot

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Qualified for the Academy Awards – Oscars (2025)

After several unsuccessful attempts to complete a Captcha, feminist Lara sets out to answer the disturbing question of whether she’s a robot, and therefore bought by her own boyfriend

INFO

Category: Short film
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi Black Comedy
Language: Dutch (English Subs)
Countries: Netherlands, Belgium
Director: Victoria Warmerdam
Producer: Trent (OAK Motion Pictures)
Co-producer: Henry Gillet (The Y-house Films),
Cast & Crew: IMDB
International Sales: Premium Films
Distribution: Amstel Film Release – 2023

Stage

In Festivals

Themes

Human, robot, feminism, trauma, morality, identity, label, music, love, buy

Selections 2023

Netherlands Film Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands – september 2023 – competition for Best Short – NOMINATED FOR BEST ACTRESS
Sitges Film Festival, Sitges, Spain – October 2023 – competition for Best Short – Academy Award© Qualifying – BEST SHORT FILM
Imagine IFF, Amsterdam, Netherlands – November 2023- competition for Best Short
Les Utopiales, International festival Science -fiction, Nantes, France – November – International Short Film Competition
international FF Winterthur, Swiss, – November – Official Section Hot Shorts – Academy Award© Qualifying and EFA Qualifying
Leeds IFF, Leeds. UK – November – Official Section Fantastic Shorts – Academy Award® qualifying festival
Shortcutz, Amsterdam – November – Official Selection – WINNER OF THE MONTH
Leuven IFF, Leuven. Belgium – December – Official Selection – Academy Award® qualifying festival and EFA Qualifying AUDIENCE AWARD BEST SHORT FILM
CRASH, International Fantastic Film Festival – Goiania, Brazil – Official Selection – December
Wiz-Art, Lviv International Short Film Festival – Lviv, Ukraine – Official Selection – December – EFA Qualifying
Cortos con Ñ. International short film festival – Madrid, Spain – December

Selections 2024

Flickerfest International Short FF, Sydney, Australia – January – Academy Award® qualifying festival – BEST EU SHORT FILM
Shortcutz, Amsterdam, Netherlands – January – BEST FILM, BEST SCRIPT, BEST ACTING – NOMINATED FOR BEST EDITING, BEST DIRECTING, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
GOSH-Festival, Paris, France – February – Official Selection – BEST FILM, BEST SCRIPT, BEST DIRECTOR, AUDIENCE AWARD
Sydney Short Film Festival – Sydney, Australia – February – Official Selection
Ibiza Cinefest, Ibiza, Spain – February/March – Official Selection
11th Festival du film fantastique de Bourg-en-Bresse, France – March – Official Selection
Madeira Fantastic FilmFest, Portugal – March – Official Selection
Crystal Palace IFF, London, UK – March – Official Selection
12th edition of Les Intergalactiques Sci fi Festival, Lyon, France – April – Official Selection
Brussels International fantastic Film festival, Brussels, Belgium – April – Official SelectionFantasia IFF, Montreal, Canada – July – Official Selection