Molly vs the Machines
Marc Silver / United Kingdom / 2025 / 83 min
The responsibility of tech giants for young people's mental health is put to the test in a film in which a tragedy in a British family leads to a court case where a heartbroken father takes legal action.
Molly was a perfectly ordinary 14-year-old English girl. One day, like any other, she came home from school, did her homework, said goodnight to her parents, and went to her room. A few hours later, she had committed suicide. No one saw it coming – except the algorithms in her phone.
With the help of professor and author Shoshana Zuboff (‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’), the film jumps from the teenager’s bedroom to Silicon Valley and on to the courtroom, where Molly’s heartbroken father fights an impossible battle to hold American tech companies accountable for the harmful content they feed young people every single day.
The emotional core of the film is Molly’s story, but with its broad intellectual and legal scope, the film also hits like a digital landmine at a time when the battle against Big Tech has never been more heated.