Arco

Part of Rascals Film Festival 2026

In 2075, a 10-year-old girl, Iris, sees a mysterious boy wearing a rainbow jumpsuit falling from the sky.

It's Arco. He comes from a distant, idyllic future where time travel is possible. Iris takes him in and will do whatever it takes to help him return home.

European Children's Film Association:

The jury felt inspired and moved by this film’s hopeful vision for the future which transports us to the year 2075, where our main character makes a wish that ‘things would change’. Her wish becomes reality in this fascinating and deeply humanistic tale about machines, a boy who dreams of flying and a girl who longs for a friend.

The film never talks down to its young audience or hides the current challenges of our world. Rather than offering us a vision of gloom, the future is presented in dazzling colours and in an exquisite, hand-drawn animation style blending the tradition of Japanese animation seamlessly with the spirit of European comic-book fantasy.