I'm Not a Robot (film)
2023 film directed by Victoria Warmerdam
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.
Plot
Dutch music producer Lara is listening to Scala & Kolacny Brothers' cover of Radiohead's "Creep" at work 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". The voice hangs up after refusing to assist her.
Lara fails more tests and is then redirected to another test that asks a series of arbitrary questions, including whether she feels like an outsider and whether her partner is wealthy; when she confirms that her parents died in an accident before she was old enough to remember them, the test responds that they most likely never existed.
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