THE WILD ROBOT | Special Screening

Based on Peter Brown’s bestselling children’s books and directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Chris Sanders, THE WILD ROBOT is an epic tale of survival in which animals and machines must question their programming and embrace their hidden strengths. Rozim 7134 (Lupita Nyong’o) exists to receive orders. But on the rugged isle where Roz first boots up, no orders are forthcoming. There’s no owner to be found and none of the island’s motley menagerie of animals have any use for her skills – until she meets Brightbill (Kit Connor), an orphaned gosling who attaches to Roz the moment he’s born. Taking advice from a fox called Fink (Pedro Pascal), Roz compiles a set of directives to help Brightbill through his infancy. In a place where every creature is either predator or prey, learning to eat, swim and fly isn’t enough. Brightbill needs to negotiate sticky social situations and find entry into a flock before migration season comes. For this, he needs qualities like tenderness and nurturing – things Roz will need to look deep inside her robot soul to find. Featuring an unforgettable score by Oscar winning director and composer Kris Bowers who will discuss his creative process following the film screening.