Arco is a heartfelt time-travel adventure that blends imagination with environmental themes. The story follows Arco, a curious ten-year-old from the distant year 2932, where humans live in floating cloud cities and travel through time using rainbow flight suits. Too young to fly legally, Arco secretly attempts a journey to the age of dinosaurs, but instead crashes-lands in 2075. This is a great film for the whole family. Suggested for children 10 yrs+, as the film is French with English subtitles.
Arco is discovered by Iris, a thoughtful ten-year-old who lives with her baby brother Peter under the care of their gentle robot guardian, Mikki, while their parents work in the city. Following a violent storm, Iris tracks a streak of rainbow light into the forest and finds the injured traveller, secretly bringing him home, where Mikki helps nurse him back to health.
As Arco describes his distant future—where humanity lives in cloud cities to allow Earth to heal—Iris becomes inspired, sketching the floating platforms he remembers. But their growing friendship is complicated when three eccentric brothers begin searching for the mysterious boy, and Arco struggles to return home without the gemstone that powers his flight, which only works when sun and rain appear together to form a rainbow.
As a massive wildfire spreads and authorities close in, the children attempt a daring escape, but their flight fails, and they crash in the burning forest. In a moving act of loyalty, Mikki follows their rainbow trail and rescues them, sheltering in a cave where the damaged robot quietly carves memories of Iris, her family, and Arco into the cave walls before finally shutting down.
When Iris and Arco emerge, a sky filled with rainbows reveals that Arco’s family—now much older after years spent searching through time for him—have finally found their son thanks to Mikki’s carvings. Though the friends must part ways, the story hints that Iris grows up to become an architect whose ideas help create the floating cloud cities of Arco’s future, suggesting their brief friendship may have shaped the world to come.
At its heart, Arco is a moving story about courage, friendship, and hope. With moments of adventure and emotional depth, it suggests that small acts of kindness today may help shape a better world tomorrow.
Now showing at the Luna Cinemas in Perth and Fremantle. Click here for more information
Showing in Palace Cinemas around Australia. Click here
