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The Ballad of Tita and the Machines
2023 | Color | 14:52

When Tita, an elderly fieldworker, reluctantly hires an AI humanoid to fill in for her picking strawberries, she attracts the engineers' attention because their humanoids cannot do her back-breaking work.


Country: Estados Unidos
Direction: Caballero; Miguel Angel
Script: Aldana; Luis Antonio, Caballero; Miguel Angel
Production: Sardinha; Helena, Thomaseto; Rafael
Photography: Hunter; Robert H.
Sound: Velasquez; Andres
Music: Revell; Robert J.
Cast:Patalano; Laura, Aldana; Luis Antonio, Greetham; Nico
Art direction: Brecko-Acklen; Robert, Acuña; Alexah
Participation year at FICM: 2023

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