'I'm Your Man' is an unconventional portrait of a woman who empirically lives with a humanoid robot and finds the answer to what makes someone human is not as black-and-white as she once thought. As the world evolves, technology continues to become further ingrained in every aspect of our lives. From the everyday of using a touchscreen cash register to the more advanced instruments used for microsurgery, these tools improve speed, convenience and accuracy. However, the integration into our personal lives has progressed slower for many, keeping it at arm's length for various reasons. Yet, countless people have turned to online dating websites and algorithms to find their perfect match, but for some finding the one seems like an endless journey of energy consumption and heartbreak.

Maria Schrader’s film, starring Dan Stevens as a robot designed to be the perfect man, confirms comedy as the playground of philosophy: nothing is funnier or more stirring than the sight of somebody learning how to be.

Directed by Maria Schrader, this was a crowd-pleasing favourite at the Berlin film festival earlier this year and its star, Maren Eggert, won the festival's new gender-neutral best leading performance prize. But I was disappointed with a film whose crises and dilemmas seem laborious and essentially predictable; it does not fully work as sci-fi or satire or comedy. We are in a world of the near-future (and the city of Berlin itself is certainly very plausible as its location). Eggert plays Alma, an archaeologist with an unhappy and frustrating personal life. She is persuaded by her boss to be a guinea-pig for a new hi-tech scheme: she will road-test a male "companion" robot, programmed to be infinitely considerate and obliging, which will attend to all her emotional and indeed physical needs.

For her second feature documentary, "National Bird," director Sonia Kennebeck puts a face on the victims of drone warfare who are both in the United States and abroad. Part of the technology's appeal is the distance -- both physical and emotional -- between the U.S. armed forces and their targets, but the film argues that military personel are affected, even if they are never in the same country as the people considered collateral damage. At the heart of "National Bird" are three whistle-blowers. Heather is a former drone imagery analyst who struggles with PTSD and takes her story to the Guardian. Daniel is a former government contractor and signals intelligence analyst who worries about what he can and cannot share with everyone in his life.