ROBOTIA, THE MOVIE

ROBOTIA, LA PELÍCULA

By Diego CAGIDE, Diego LUCERO

MALABAR PRODUCCIONES S.R.L. - as PROD

Animation - Production 2024

In a world inhabited by androids, a girl dreams of playing football, despite her family’s ban. Her friends will come to her aid to help her fulfill her wish, and to show everyone what they are capable of doing, on and off the football field.

Festivals
& Awards

Ibermedia 2019
Development Award
Apulia Film Forum 2020
Selected for Market
INCAA 2020
Fortalecimiento Contest
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Animation, Children's, 3D
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA, SPAIN, COSTA RICA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 84 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Diego CAGIDE, Diego LUCERO
    • Writer(s)
    • Mariano ROJO
    • Producer(s)
    • Nicolas COUVIN (Malabar Producciones SRL), Ricardo RAMON (DIBULITOON STUDIO), Herby DELGADO (Tropics Creative)
    • Synopsis
    • In the world of Robotia, inhabited by machines that live, dream, learn and play, they are also born. Or in your case, they are recycled and assembled.
      In this way, all the inhabitants of Robotia are connected to one another. Just like Alex and Bibi, even if they don’t know it.
      When Alex is handed over to his parents, they discover that the little robot has an appa- rent flaw in his left foot, which does not prevent them from receiving him with joy and loving him from the beginning without restraint. But perhaps for this reason, and even unintentionally, Alex goes through his early childhood away from the big cities and pro- tected from any activity that his parents consider “dangerous”, like sports, for example.
      But everything that his parents tried to avoid him little by little, suddenly turns upside down when the family has to move to Robotia, the largest megalopolis in the world. A different house, a huge, feverish and noisy city, a new school.
      Life is no longer peaceful for Alex, and he has a hard time adjusting.
      One afternoon, overwhelmed, he walks aimlessly, and in a clearing, a makeshift pa- ddock, he discovers for the first time robots playing in what they call “the little forest field”.
      Alex does not know that mysterious game, but he is immediately fascinated when he
      discovers the ball spinning in the air. He has just met football.
      At that moment they invite him to play, and as soon as he touches the ball for the first time, and it fits perfectly in that hole in his left foot, which was a disability all his life, Alex understands that, from the beginning, he was made to play football.
      Bibi, on the other hand, was made with some of the same original pieces that shaped Alex. She got the best.
      From a young age her parents designed her entire future: where and what she should study.
      However, Bibi dreams of something else. In the afternoons, without being seen, she prac- tices football as much as she can. And she also runs to the forest field to see how others play although she never dares to ask to be allowed to play. Until one day that, after arguing with her mother, she wanders through the forest and inadvertently ends up on the court where the boys discover her.
      When Bibi’s parents find out, they forbid her to play with them again, but the boys are not
      willing to lose one of their best players or, even worse, one of their best friends.
      To see her again, Alex comes up with one of his delusional plans: to impersonate the new gym teacher at Bibi’s College.
      To his surprise, he finds out that not only Bibi, but ALL the girls in the class are keen on
      football.
      With the help of his friends, he begins to train a team of girls, with the intention of scoring them in the city tournament, which until now was exclusively for boys.
      Together they will show what the girls are capable of and, along the way, teach some im- portant things to everyone.
    • Partners & financing
    • Ibermedia
      INCAA
      Coproducer DIBULITOON, PAYCOM - Spain
      Associate Producer TROPICS CREATIVE - Costa Rica