Last night marked a special success for Dutch cinema — a movie from the Netherlands won the Academy Award for Best Short Film.
Director Victoria Warmerdam will be the one bringing the golden statue home for her sci-fi comedy Ik ben geen robot (“I’m not a robot”).
An enjoyably unsettling watch
Spare 20 minutes to sink into the trippy movie, which follows a young woman’s identity crisis after repeatedly failing CAPTCHA tests, making her question if she’s a robot. 🤖
Prepare for paranoia — we’ll never look at those tests the same way again…
A comeback for Dutch cinema
Victoria and her partner and producer Trent hope that the monumental win will bring a larger audience to their film and give the entire Dutch film industry a boost.
“This means so much to us, especially because no Dutch people had been nominated in this category since the sixties,” said Victoria to RTL Nieuws.
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The win is certainly already boosting Victoria and Trent’s careers. 🤩
“I hear from Victoria and Trent that they are indeed having a lot of conversations and that doors may be opened,” commented Henry van Loon, one of the actors in the award-winning film.
Have you seen any of the Oscar-nominated movies? What did you think of them?
