Director: Chris Sanders
A shipwrecked machine learns to raise a gosling on an island that never asked for her — and the result is one of 2024's most tender pieces of animated storytelling.
What is The Wild Robot about?
Roz is a service robot built for delivering packages and following instructions, not for surviving in the wild. When a storm washes her crate onto the shore of an uninhabited island, none of her programming prepares her for foxes, bears, or the fierce winters that follow. Her first attempts to "complete a task" for the island's wary animals go badly, until an accident leaves her responsible for a single fragile goose egg. Raising the gosling — teaching him to swim, to eat, and eventually to fly south before the cold arrives — pulls Roz into relationships she was never designed to want, including an uneasy alliance with a scheming fox who has his own reasons for sticking around. Director Chris Sanders builds the island as a living, changing character in its own right, tracking a full year of seasons while Roz's original directive quietly gives way to something closer to family.
Cast & crew
Lupita Nyong'o voices Roz with a clipped, curious cadence that slowly warms without ever losing its mechanical logic, while Pedro Pascal's fox and Kit Connor's young goose supply most of the film's comic and emotional counterweight. Bill Nighy, Catherine O'Hara, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill, and Ving Rhames round out the island's animal ensemble in smaller but distinct roles.
Context & significance
Adapted from Peter Brown's illustrated children's novel, the film keeps the book's watercolor-inspired visual texture, favoring painterly backgrounds over the glossier look common to recent computer animation. Chris Sanders, who previously co-directed How to Train Your Dragon and Lilo & Stitch, brings a similar interest in unlikely companionship across species lines, and the movie earned wide critical praise along with an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.
Where & how to watch
The Wild Robot streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so it plays comfortably for Farsi-speaking households of any age. The full K-Time library, including its Farsi-first interface, is available after a simple account login — no separate purchase or extra step required to start watching.