‘Robot dreams’ and the discovery of one's identity
The animated film that, without dialogue, presents a profound reflection on friendship and loss.
Can a dog and a robot become friends? Robot Dreams presents it like this. Although it may seem impossible, this is the story of a dog called Dog who lives in Manhattan. The New York of the nineteen-eighties is not a place to make friends, it is a city where constant movement makes him more and more isolated. Therefore, his most logical solution is to build himself a robot to have a friend to share his daily life with. Their friendship doesn't stop growing and they become inseparable, until, one summer night, Dog is forced to leave his dear friend at the beach.
Pablo Berger's film is a journey that explores friendship and grief, as well as the recognition of the self through experience. The search for identity and loss are two poles that are interspersed in a fiction without dialogue, inspired by the graphic novel of the same name by Sara Varon. A cinema of emotion, of pure rhythm, that reaches the heart without pretensions and that captures in a simple way, approaching the two sides of the coin of any relationship: love and patience.
Xarxa de Centres Cívics de Barcelona presents, as part of the 13th edition of the Pantalla BDC and the Petit Cineclub category, the film Robot dreams, a journey of exploration through all the emotional stages of friendship aimed at the whole family. This is a cycle that aims to consolidate quality, local cinema, programming films that invite us to think about the future, about what provokes anguish and excitement in equal parts about escaping from human control.
It is an experience to pause for a second to reflect on relationships, friendship and to do it as a family. For more information about the film and the Pantalla BDC film series, visit the website of Xarxa de Centres Cívics de Barcelona.