Robot T-O

Robot T-O (Un monde merveilleux, 2025) is a French near-future dramedy you can watch online on iFILM. In a world where robots handle nearly every job, there's no longer much for someone like Max to do. Blanche Gardin takes the lead.

Strapped for cash, Max tries to offload a household robot named T-O. The problem: the model is hopelessly outdated, and T-O is a compulsive truth-teller who blurts out the wrong thing at the worst possible moment, leaving Max mortified again and again. No buyer wants him, so the machine stays. Then Max loses custody of her daughter, Pola — and it's T-O she hits the road with to win the girl back.

Director Giulio Callegari builds a small-scale sci-fi story that's less about technology than about trust: to believe in herself and in other people, Max first has to lean on one absurd talking machine. It's a treat for anyone who likes European science fiction at human scale, played with a dry, deadpan wit. Stream Robot T-O (2025) online on iFILM.