LOVE ME Trailer: Kristen Stewart & Steven Yeun Star in a Post-Human AI Love Story

As Sundance 2025 is approaching, one of the most ambitious films of last year’s festival is finally making its way to U.S. theaters. Sam and Andy Zuchero’s feature debut Love Me stars Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun as two AI personas inhabiting a buoy and a satellite who learn to fall in love over billions of years. The film was the recipient of last year’s Alfred P. Sloan Prize which is awarded to a feature film that emphasizes science or technology as a theme. Ahead of its release on January 31, Bleecker Street has just rolled out the official trailer.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Long after humanity’s extinction, a buoy (Kristen Stewart) and a satellite (Steven Yeun) inherit the Earth, and with only the internet as their guide, learn what it means to be alive and in love. In this groundbreaking first feature from Sam and Andy Zuchero, LOVE ME explores AI and identity through live-action, animatronics, and classic animation in an epic tale of connection and transformation.

Melanie Addington said in her Sundance review, “This world in which hybrid no longer just means documentary mixed with narrative but rolls out in an edgier style, varying styles of animation, VR, real actors, and voice work all coming together to tell a story. But as that is not the takeaway of the movie, the real heart, and it is a bit on the schmaltzy side, is on absolute deconstruction of who we are as humanity, setting the film much later in the future after humans are gone while also serving as an absolute reconstruction of identity and what life is in a nutshell. The fact that the A.I. remains tied to humanity at its core because of what developed it. It’s a hopeful look at technology as essentially good like humans rather than most post-apocalyptic films that emphasize the terror and coldness of A.I… If you step back and follow the journey of these two “life forms” as they go on their journey, you find a love letter to the sci-fi of the past that taught us our humanity by looking directly at our insecurities and facing them.This idea that something different than you isn’t a person is the absolute core idea of sci-fi. In that respect, this film earned my admiration.”

See the trailer and poster below.

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