Goodnight, Milwaukee
Best AI Short at AI Los Angeles IFF. A gentle farewell story.
AI FilmLooking for Perseida
Astana AAIFF third place ($100K). A Spanish film completed in just 10 days of production.
AI FilmSitara
Astana AAIFF runner-up ($200K). An Indian film that won silver at the world's largest AI film festival.
AI FilmThe First Honest Day
Astana AAIFF Grand Prize ($450K), selected from 8,067 submissions across 125 countries — the largest AI film festival of 2026.
AI FilmThe Last Span
Astana AAIFF Best Story Award ($50K). A Chinese team's emotional narrative wins over technical spectacle — judges again rewarded story over VFX.
AI FilmLe Drip
Reply Venice AI Film Festival runner-up. A living oil-painting aesthetic telling the story of a fish's last day.
AI FilmThe Child of the Sea
Reply Venice Special Mention. A Spanish film about the child of the sea.
AI FilmBroken Sheath
38th Hundred Flowers Awards AIGC Best Short — produced exclusively on Jimeng, selected from 2,038 submissions. Director Tang Jiqing notes traditional production costs ¥20–30 million.
AI FilmPlastic Erosion
Champion of the AI for Good Film Festival at ITU Geneva. A Chinese team's environmental documentary work.
AI FilmA Face Only A Mother Could Love
Runway AIFF Grand Prize + Reply Venice champion — the only work to win both top festivals in 2026. A Parisian dancer with a facial deformity, and the chance encounter that changes a lonely life.
AI FilmTairell Isn't Real
Runway AIFF Honoree. A film questioning the reality of characters.
AI FilmWhere Knights Fall
Runway AIFF Silver Prize. A medieval knight-themed film.
AI FilmMiserable Breath Miserable Flesh
Bucharest BAIFF Gold Prize. A dark allegory about a plague village that "heals" through burning witches — a meditation on salvation.
AI FilmRailbound
Bucharest BAIFF Silver Prize. Mike Brodie's hobo train photography animated frame by frame — a beautiful "photo to film" example.
AI FilmSeven Days a Floating Life
Beijing International Film Festival AIGC Best Feature. The director uses seven layers of dream to heal trauma from a real drowning accident in Bali.
AI FilmCosta Verde
WAIFF Cannes Best Film. A boy in 1990s Corsica records his grandparents' summer with his first camera — a private memory turned into an award-winning film.
AI FilmThe Cinema that Never Was
Artefact AI Film Festival Paris Grand Prize, chaired by director Cédric Klapisch. A conceptual film about films and images that never existed.
AI FilmLily
Dubai Global AI Film Award winner. A lonely archivist's car strikes something — the doll lodged in the grille turns out to be a survivor's emotional lifeline, forcing him to confess and return it.