AI films worth watching.

A fantasy short about the literal king of hamburgers, a medieval sovereign whose entire kingdom is organized around the perfect burger. Mann uses AI to play the absurdity straight, creating a world that takes its own premise completely seriously.

A game with adult stakes, hide or seek becomes the choice between self-preservation and exposure in this tense short by Emad Khalid Mughal. Made in 48 hours, the film's central tension survives the compressed production.

A swashbuckling adventure short that uses AI to generate the impossible spectacle of high-seas piracy. David Mann brings the genre's iconography, cursed gold, storm-tossed ships, mortal peril, to life through AI generation that leans into visual excess.

A couple whose relationship is organised around light, who chases it, who waits in the shade. Aureli and Costa use AI to render warmth as a tangible, scarce resource in a film that is fundamentally about optimism.

A love letter to 80s and 90s anime, the two ancient trees of the title exist as lovers separated by season, reaching for each other across the year. Davide Bianca uses AI to recreate the hand-drawn warmth of Studio Ghibli in a short that earns its sincerity.

A motivational short that commits fully to its absurd premise, getting big, in every sense. Miranda and De La Chica made this in 48 hours and won People's Choice Bronze by understanding that comedy requires confidence.

A dark fantasy short following a warlock whose power has turned against him. Fictional Films and Alex Russek use AI to achieve practical effects that would cost millions to stage conventionally, fire, transformation, the texture of magic gone wrong.

A film whose title is also its address, Welcome to Void's is a place you can check into but can't check out of.

The official AI music video for Disturbed's "Bad Man", directed by Tristan Holmes. A politically charged visual essay that uses AI-generated imagery to catalogue the archetypal villain, the bad man who exists in every era under different names.

A construction project becomes an excavation of something older and stranger beneath the surface. Abitante uses AI to turn the iconography of labour, heavy machinery, mud, depth, into something approaching mythology.

A title that carries the weight of a whole life, the small, persistent dream of open sky above a complicated earth. UNVEIL makes the AI-generated frame feel intimate and irretrievable, a fleeting glimpse of something almost grasped.

A creature torn from its jungle home must find its way back, an allegory for our relationship with emerging technology, the fear of the unfamiliar, and whether we are ready to face what comes next.

"Shizukana Koe" means "quiet voice" in Japanese, and Kelly's short is built around silence, the things left unsaid between people who love each other. A delicate, formally careful film selected by the jury for its restraint in a medium that usually rewards excess.

Named for the tiny camera lens that sees the biggest things, the brave little len is a story about scale, a small protagonist in an enormous world, looking up. It won the IMAX Award at Gen:48 by delivering imagery that felt born to be projected at 70mm.

A music video for Greek Fire's song, made by AI filmmaker Kavan the Kid. The video pairs the band's yearning rock sound with AI imagery that makes the ordinary, a face, a field, a burning house, feel desperately significant.

An experimental music video built from shifting, AI-generated abstract spaces and a quietly stretching sense of time, set to a song about waiting for someone who never arrives. Rather than telling a concrete story, it lets fleeting moments and silence carry the ache of wanting to see someone again.

The official AI-generated music video for Linkin Park's posthumous release of "Lost", directed by visual artist Maciej Kuciara. One of the most widely seen AI-generated films, it brought AI cinema to a mainstream audience that didn't know it was watching the future.

A maximalist action film with a title that earns every word, Bunny Fist Melting Pearl refuses to hold still long enough to be categorised. Volkau edits AI-generated imagery at a pace that makes the whole thing feel like a fever dream of a summer blockbuster.

A short that makes horror from the physics of AI generation itself, the way images almost resolve before sliding back into abstraction. Stochastic Fantasy uses the medium's instability as the source of dread, not the content.

An experimental AI music video by Taiwanese artist Sijin Liu, combining AI animation with live-action elements. A collaboration between human performers and machine imagination.