OSCAR Winning Film for Best Live-Action Short film in 2025!!!!

After repeatedly failing Captcha tests, music producer Lara becomes obsessed with a disturbing question: could she be a robot?

Review by Julie Sheppard:

The short film I’m Not a Robot is a fictional tale, but it is so convincing that a viewer can almost believe in its validity. There are so many corporations using AI these days, instead of real humans, that the film’s premise does not stray too far from the truth. The performer playing Lara does a stellar job infusing her character with a wide variety of “human-like” emotions such as annoyance, doubt, embarrassment, anger and eventual desperation. The performers playing the sheepish, cowardly Daniel and the cold, dismissive Pam serve as superb foils to Lara, as she passionately defends her humanness. 

Most of us are familiar with the rather annoying CAPTCHA test. After viewing this film, it will be forever hard to forget what we witnessed; when doing our obligatory CAPTCHA tests, we might ponder the surreal idea that we are all just bots, too — so much of our human connection has a technical element dividing us because of the computer generation in which we live.   

The choice to play a version of the Radiohead song “Creep” to frame the film at the top and end is smart, encouraging us to question if we really are all “special”, or replaceable by technology. Suitable office and stairwell locations and the parking garage, in particular, serves the narrative for the jarring, unexpected ending. This intriguing film gives us existential pause and does a fabulous job blurring fact from fiction.

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