It's a kids' — and robots' — world in Oscar-nominated animated film 'Arco'

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In the new animated film, "Arco," a time-traveling boy gets trapped in the year 2075 and must evade captors, robots and wildfires. NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer and director Ugo Bienvenu.

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