I'm Not a Robot (2023)

Original title

Ik ben geen robot

Directed by

Victoria Warmerdam

Genre

science fiction film

Country

Netherlands, Belgium

Runtime

22 min

Rated

12

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 34 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman fails a series of CAPTCHA tests and starts to question her own reality. The story follows her as she tries to understand what is happening.

suspensefulperplexingdisorientingphilosophicaltensemodernintrospective

What happens

I'm Not a Robot (Dutch: Ik ben geen robot) is a 2023 Dutch-language short science fiction drama film written and directed by Victoria Warmerdam. It stars Ellen Parren as a woman who plunges into a strange new reality after she fails a series of CAPTCHA tests. An international co-production between Belgium and the Netherlands, I'm Not a Robot had its world premiere at the Netherlands Film Festival on 23 September 2023, and was made available for streaming via the YouTube channel of The New Yorker on 15 November 2024. It won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2025, becoming the first Dutch short film to do so. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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