ROBOTS DON'T CRY
Animation Feature in development
SYNOPSIS
OSKAR EDER (11) spends his free time with the quirky senior residents of “Seniorenparadies”, where his single father, head nurse BARTHEL, is struggling with the staff shortage. As the situation threatens to escalate, Oskar recruits NOLA (15), his tech-savvy friend, to adapt her little robot squirrel for help. This works well, and Nola convinces her mother to sell care robots to the home and make them engage Nola to train them. As Nola is lacking social skills, Oskar steps in to help her understand the intricate needs of his elderly friends, who soon come to love the rhyming, rapping machine. The upbeat playtime that Oskar, Nola, and the robot spend with the senior residents is abruptly cut short when the managing director discovers that she's getting a toy instead of an efficient cost-cutting machine. She orders Nola to train the robots to rationalize and be efficient. Oskar sabotages Nola’s work with-out even considering that he is endangering the elderly.
CREW
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY
Tina Leisch
CO-WRITER
Janet Clark
DOP
Fabio Peissl
CONSULTANT
Gerald Kerkletz
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Barbara Eppensteiner
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Franziska Teresa Aringer
Production
Development supported by
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
