Festival Winners
Celebrating the most innovative and creative AI-generated films from our festival
Best Film Overall
New Beginnings
Erol B. Abay
6:00
Middle-aged women gather around a campfire, sharing their deepest griefs and finding unexpected solace in AI companions. A quietly provocative exploration of modern emotional dependency and connection in an increasingly digital world.
Best Documentary Short
Night of Broken Glass
Dalit Kimor
3:00
A powerful three-generation testimony of Kristallnacht, combining AI-reconstructed imagery with real survivor accounts. The film uses AI not as decoration but as devotion, preserving memory with profound dignity and urgent relevance.
Best AI Short Film
Planet 1001: AI-Reconstructed Terrestrial Archives
Hui Kuang & Junshu Fang
3:00
Speculative fiction that dances with poetry and philosophical riddles. A cosmic archive exploring humanity's pursuit of a perfect society through simulations, revealing how systems fail because perfection is a lie of design.
Best Story/Screenplay
Who's The Robot Now?
Erik Gen
5:00
A sharp, darkly funny mockumentary exploring the future dynamics between humans and AI. Androids observe their human counterparts with dry wit, revealing uncomfortable truths about power, dependency, and delusion in a role-reversed world.
Best Film Overall
Total Pixel Space
Jacob Adler
9:28
An exploration of the nature of digital images through generative AI, examining the vast yet mathematically finite combinations of pixels and colors. Contains every possible digital image, including films of your entire life, every life you never lived, and the lives of every creature or object that ever and never existed.
Best AI Short Film
Anomalia
Delphine Sicard Malafosse
8:00
A sci-fi nature documentary exploring the concept of anomaly through AI-generated fauna and flora. Initially seen as rare deviations, certain species thrive when environmental conditions shift. The film questions our perception of difference: is an anomaly truly an anomaly?
Best Story/Screenplay
Next Stop Paris
Stuart Acher
11:00
When Claire, an overly cautious planner, and Del, a free-spirited dreamer, meet by chance on a train, they embark on a spontaneous day in Paris filled with adventure and self-discovery. A dopamine-fueled daydream stitched together by real heart and sly cinematic intelligence.
Best Animation Short
Soledad
Isabel Martinez
2:00
The story of a specter who lives in isolation in nature but feels the desire to be with someone. A mirror held up to the unseen, exploring disconnection, the challenges of communication, and the human need to connect in a hyper-connected world.
Best Film Overall
Lincoln at Gettysburg
Matt Zien
6:00
A consummate AI-art realization of Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Address, with excellent montages of realistic and emotional segments illustrating the struggles, aftermath, and legacy of the war. The seamless integration of AI-generated visuals and audio brings history to life with authenticity and cinematic sophistication.
Best Live Action Short
All Dogs Go To Heaven
Cindy Claes & Gian Bonacchi
10:00
A thought-provoking sci-fi short set in a dystopian world where emotions are stripped away through neural chips. Well-acted performances pull the audience into a world exploring what it truly means to be human. The film's tragic ending reinforces its central theme: without memories and emotions, humanity becomes soulless and mechanical.
Best Art Direction
The Heir
Yalin Solmaz
6:00
A masterful film that immerses viewers in the grandeur and tension of an Ottoman-era tale in steampunk style. The film authentically captures the historical aesthetic, staying true to its style from beginning to end. Its blend of intrigue, invention, and ambition makes for a compelling narrative exploring themes of power and legacy.
Best Technical Achievement
Cosmic Castaway
Christopher Dorsey
6:00
A delightful blend of humor, heart, and wit with nearly flawless execution. The charming relationships in the film deliver laughs and warmth in equal measure, creating an entertaining and endearing experience that showcases technical excellence in AI filmmaking.
Best Picture
Anima Possession
Wai Mo Chan
25:00
An intricate and delicate short which explores human-on-human, human-on-humanoid, and humanoid-on-humanoid love relationships and what it means to be soulmates. A pair of lovers, one of whom is a humanoid, go to a robot repair shop hoping to have their relationship mended, setting in motion a tango between love, possession, and independence.
Best Animated Short
Red Gaia
Udesh Chetty
13:00
Alone on the dying red planet, among the ruins of human civilization, one last android desperately guards the last essences of life. A tone-poem meditation on life, death and rebirth, drawing inspiration from the Bhagavad Gita, Dante's Purgatorio, the Kabbalah, and Isaac Asimov.
Best Documentary Feature
Artificial Justice
Simón Casal de Miguel
52:00
A brilliant documentary that explores troubling questions raised by the digital transition to Artificial Intelligence. What would happen if judges were replaced by an AI system? Would we achieve faster, more neutral and efficient justice? Would you accept to be judged by an algorithmic judge?
Best Thriller
Unicité
Autonin Domage
122:00
An innovative apocalyptic thriller in vlog style, filmed by the protagonists. In 2030, Aaron and Alexia find themselves at the heart of an insomnia pandemic slowly leading people to exhaustion. The pandemic's origin gradually becomes clearer through sectarian, biblical and occult verses interwoven with scientific and historical facts.
Best AI Enhanced Feature
A Zombie Movie
Cristóbal Ross
60:00
Created entirely using deepfake technology, this modern adaptation of George A. Romero's 'Night of the Living Dead' integrates Chilean comedians, actors and faces to create a hilarious zombie comedy. Bárbara struggles to escape from zombies in a Chilean apocalypse.
Best Documentary Short
Becoming Human@Work
Shanmuga Sundaram Nagalingam
46:00
What is the future of Humans at Work as AI becomes prevalent? Presenter Chua Enlai and his robot buddy Delbo explore AI trends in the workplace through international journeys and humorous skits. Should we trust AI & robots to operate heavy machinery, work in space, conduct job interviews and supervise humans?
Best Cinematography
Honey, I'm Home
Den Zarubin
24:00
A gorgeous film-noir exploring the tension between a killer and the victim, between AI assistant, customer service and client, and between life and death. A satirical genre story set in a near future where artificial intelligence helps by consulting human clients in rather delicate moments.
Best International Feature
Thaidi - The White Rider
Marc Louis Devaud
89:00
A young girl who leaves to meet her tutor seems to be the target of a dark hunter and a disturbing maniac. An AI mystery thriller that creates strange characters with metaphorical acts, inspired by directors Caro and Jeunet, Quentin Tarantino and Andreï Tarkovsky.
Best Comedy
The Microchip That Ruined Halloween
Miriam E Bavly
95:00
An AI microchip is implanted to reform a vengeful criminal. But when his psychiatrist treats him to an early release, a fraternity hazing incident leads to a tricky Halloween. A wryly comedic spoof on Halloween horror showing what might happen if convicts were fitted with AI microchips to modify behavior.
Best Student Animation
Feel
Johannes Pardi
4:00
Synthetic AI beings explore their roots and express their perspectives after being abandoned by their creators. A brilliant short animated film, both disturbing and hopeful, creative but meaningful, heartfelt and clear. Gives pause to think about the future of sentient androids.
Best Experimental
Artificial Selection
Junga Song
70:00
A mind-bending experimental film showing a futuristic world where AI decides to create the first ever quantum movie. Two lead actors are drawn into an intricate, apocalyptic reality which repeats in variations. This brilliant film explores the differences between humans and humanoids.
Best Horror
Frequency
Aleksander Szeser
16:00
A routine evening of a young babysitter turns into a real nightmare when the AI system supervising the house begins to receive secret commands. Original and creative film showing the terror of an AI assistant gone rogue. The unknown and unknowable motives of an intelligent machine heighten the tension.
Best Narrative Short
Plus
Bohdan Romanko
9:00
Created using state-of-the-art AI technology, this Ukrainian short follows a heart-breaking chat between an ordinary Ukrainian man compelled to join the defense forces during the 2022 Russian War, and his emerging girlfriend. The cinematic world was designed using AI to innovatively re-create imagery from the war.
Best Short Director
EnVeive
Shaun Brown
37:00
After Scott Barnes downloads a secret AI app that helps him get revenge on a coworker, he becomes entangled in a far-reaching web spun by a powerful shadow organization. This film awakens the viewer to the dark possibilities of an AI powered revenge app through skilled acting and direction.
Best AI Co-Creation
Dear Humans
Joachim Peter
5:00
Singularity knocking at the door: artificial intelligence explains to human beings why it does not need to reach consciousness to be powerful. Fascinating work with actors and AI as co-author. Chat GPT contributed rhythm and flow to the script in this exploration of AI's self-awareness.
Best Visual Concept
Heimdall Land
Xiangning Yan
3:00
A picture of social forethought showing how society might operate under AI Surveillance Capitalism. A metaphor for how the current capital market collects unlimited user data as a commodity for analysis, controlling the human mind. AI imaging re-imagines a fictional theme park using 19th century Chinese illustrations.