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There's a well-known saying about finding connection in the nation's capital city: If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. Robot Dreams, a new animated film that is up for this year's Academy ...

Oscar-nominated “Robot Dreams” is getting a theatrical release almost one year after its Cannes debut. Directed by Pablo Berger, “Robot Dreams” is based on a graphic novel by Sara Varon and follows ...

Meet Dog and Robot. A 65-sec teaser trailer has debuted for a delightful little animated film titled Robot Dreams, which first premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival a few months ago. It also ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Every new batch of Academy Awards nominations comes with a few surprises. Film fans get up in arms over some of them, but others just prompt a mild “Huh, I haven’t heard of that movie, when did that ...

“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with director Pablo Berger about his new animated film, "Robot Dreams," about a lonely dog in New York City who buys a robot to keep him company. Sometimes friends have a ...

Dog, the furry main character of the animated “Robot Dreams,” lives a solitary life in New York’s East Village during the 1980s. The neighborhood hums, hoots and hollers with life, though in this case ...

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