AI-films die het kijken waard zijn.

A visually extraordinary short film about sea turtles and the ocean. Holden Boyles achieves a level of biological detail and colour fidelity that sets a benchmark for what AI-generated nature filmmaking can look like.

A short about a man named Alex, or something called Alex, navigating the ambiguity of its own identity in a world that has stopped asking the question. Williams uses AI generation to keep the film's protagonist perpetually at the edge of recognition.

A meditation on return and repetition, Given Again circles the question of whether the same moment can carry a different meaning the second time around. Oleson uses AI-generated imagery to blur the line between memory and present tense, creating a film that feels simultaneously fresh and worn.

A short film about connection, loss, and the things we carry with us. Made in 48 hours, Ellie demonstrates that emotional specificity is possible within AI filmmaking when the story comes first.

An experimental short that uses AI-generated imagery to visualise the lifecycle of plastic, from extraction to ocean floor. Sanches builds a visual essay where the medium's synthetic nature becomes an argument: this is what it looks like when nothing decomposes.

A two-minute tour through the entirety of human existence. Fusetti filmed a live-action dance sequence, fed each frame into the Disco Diffusion AI, and composited the results into something that feels like memory distilled into motion.

Italian for chaos, Caos is a short that refuses to resolve its tensions. Abitante builds images that seem to be tearing themselves apart at the seams, a visual language for anxiety, disorder, and the strange beauty that lives inside collapse.

A frustrated protagonist is led by a mysterious manga into fantastical supermarket worlds including ramen rivers, vegetable forests, and neon bubble-tea cities.

An AI-generated comedy short exploring the absurdity of the generative era.

In a tower at the edge of a far away kingdom, Rapunzel waits. At the foot of the tower, the ground is thick with the bodies of knights, princesses and princes, all those who came before, all those who tried and fell. Then he arrives. He doesn't climb, but he crawls and slides.

Set in a scorched desert outpost, a mundane compliment about a hat triggers a chain of misunderstandings with escalating consequences.

Adapted from a classic Chinese ghost story, guests at an inn are drawn into a deadly illusion, a game of life and death controlled by five peculiar ghosts, where fate lies not in your own hands but in the choices of others.

A meditation on legacy and the traces people leave after they are gone, the objects, the habits, the shapes their absence carves into the lives around them.

A woman receives transmissions from a version of herself living twenty years ahead. Marit Hofman's short plays the time-loop premise straight, finding genuine unease in the question of whether you would want to know.

A lone traveller crosses a post-collapse landscape, driven by a destination that may no longer exist. Intrepid commits to its world-building with the confidence of a film three times its length.

Inside the last greenhouse on a dying planet, a botanist keeps a record of everything that once grew. A gentle, mournful short about care, preservation, and the things we tend even when no one is watching.

A dark mythology made in 48 hours, a deity abandoned by its believers faces a world that has moved on. blnk uses AI-generated imagery to create the look of ancient religious iconography decaying in real time.

Japanese AI Cinema / Cyberpunk / Elderly Heroine

A confident, visually inventive trailer for a Japanese AI-generated cyberpunk feature, with at least one genuinely surprising image: an elderly woman flying on a thruster-rig with her cat. Treat the festival-laurels opener as marketing, not curation.

Viral AI Short / Solo Creator / Post-Apocalyptic

A visually polished three-minute AI genre short that blends spaghetti-western loneliness with a WALL-E-style robot-and-mannequin love story. More proof-of-concept than complete film, but charming enough to make you wish it were longer.

AIFF 2024 Grand Prix / Psychological Horror / Doppelgänger

A controlled, genuinely cinematic mood piece about insomnia and a self you can't escape. Its red-doppelgänger imagery sticks long after the runtime ends.