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“I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room
Victoria Warmerdam's Oscar-winning Dutch short film in which a woman fails a series of Captcha tests and is plunged into a strange new reality. It is a dark, Black Mirror-like sci-fi comedy.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN brings it up in threads about captchas, bots and AI agents as an excellent short film about being a robot.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- The New Yorker
- Topic
- short film about captchas
- Format
- other
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2025–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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If anyone hasn't seen it yet there is an excellent short movie online called "I'm not a Robot". [VIDEO] Well worth a watch.
jjbinx007 on Hacker News · 2026-08
In Convince an AI it's not alive in psychological horror game Prove You're HumanOh my, a Dutch film that actually sounds good?! I get to watch a movie that's originally in my native language for perhaps the second time in my life, thanks for linking this :D Edit: and it's on YouTube in full! Was wondering which streaming …
Aachen on Hacker News · 2025-03
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