My Only Friend is a Robot Named Beans

In an isolated future, Ruby (newly 25 and seriously lacking a social life) finds her lonesome routines disrupted when she makes an unlikely new friend: a mail-order robot. Ruby is forced to learn lessons from her new robot friend: the power of opening up, the importance of platonic intimacy, and how to quell that anxious voice in the back of your head that wonders why anyone would want to be friends with you.

Credits
Writer: Anika Kan Grevstad
Producer: Corrina Leatherwood, Chris Bauer, Skye Mahaffie, Anika Kan Grevstad
Executive Producer: Susan Wise Bauer
Director of Photography: Jasmine Karcey
Editor: Anika Kan Grevstad
Production Designer: Patricia Witt
Composer: Edith Mudge
Sound Designer: Matthew Larson

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Can I Borrow a Feeling?

As long as we’ve been telling stories, tales of longing have been part of the human ethos. They are no stranger to any medium, let alone cinema. Plots and characters change, but the sentiment is always the same and always relevant. Yet, just as in life, longing is never the end of the story. Comfort, connection, or a revelation emerge in unexpected ways—through new companions, within our families and friends, the language we share, or even a new hairdo.