I Am Not A Robot

Directed by Victoria Warmerdam Starring Ellen Parren, Thekla Reuten, Henry van Loon. 22 minutes.

Winner of the 2025 Oscar Best Live Action Short. JDutch music producer Lara is plunged into a strange new reality when a system update forces her to restart her laptop. The update presents her with a series of CAPTCHA tests, which she repeatedly fails despite inputting the correct answers. Frustrated, she calls tech support. The voice on the other end suggests that Lara can’t get through because she is a robot and tells her that she would not “be the first to find out this way”………………….Intrigued??

The Last Repair Shop

Directed Kris Bowers, Ben Proudfoot Starring Dana Atkinson, Duane Michaels, Paty Moreno.
39 minutes, cert PG.

Winner of the 2024 Oscar Best Documentary Short Film. Since 1959, Los Angeles has been one of the few United States cities to offer and fix musical instruments for its public-school students at no cost. Those instruments, numbering around 80,000, are maintained at a Los Angeles downtown warehouse by a handful of craftspeople. The film profiles four of them, each specializing in an orchestra section, as well as students whose lives have been enriched by the repair shop’s work. It is also a reminder of how music can be the best medicine, stress reliever and even an escape from poverty.