Robot Dreams

Robot Dreams (2023)

Experience a once-in-a-lifetime friendship beyond your wildest dreams

A lonely dog's friendship with his robot companion takes a sad turn when an unexpected malfunction forces him to abandon Robot at the beach. Will Dog ever meet Robot again?

Date of release
2023-12-06
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (875)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Animation, Drama, Comedy, Science Fiction
Director
Pablo Berger

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: €5M
  • Awards: 3 · Nominations: 2. Including: Contrechamp Award; European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film; Gaudí Award for Best Animated Feature Film

Robot Dreams is a 2023 animated tragicomedy film written and directed by Pablo Berger. A Spanish-French co-production, it is based on the 2007 graphic novel of the same name by Sara Varon. The film follows an unusual friendship between a Labrador Retriever and a robot in New York City in 1985. The film has no dialogue.

Production

In 2008, Sara Varon was approached by an unspecified animation studio to produce a film adaptation of Robot Dreams, which would have been done entirely using computer animation. This project never materialized.

Berger first read Varon's graphic novel in about 2010 and was affected by it (as he would later call the film his love letter to 80s New York). After making his first two films, he went back to Robot Dreams and began visualizing how to make it into an animated film.

Initially, Berger wanted to work with Cartoon Saloon to animate the film, but abandoned plans in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Eventually, Berger helped set up various animation studios across Spain to help to get the film made. The animation process began in mid-June 2021 in Madrid, Spain, and later on Iruñea studios opened as well in Pamplona, working parallel to the Madrid team. Ivan Labanda provides vocals for both Dog and Robot.

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