The Last Kiss
- English (US)
In a hidden boutique that promises revenge with a single kiss, a woman seeking to erase her pain discovers that vengeance demands a heavier price — and an eternal role she cannot escape.
IMPROVEMENT CYCLE
- English (US)
This film was all created using generative AI technologies. Some images look like Japanese landscapes but are slightly different. Strange songs are sung in mysterious language. This is a memory that regenerates from the brains of humans which are already extinct. The aliens are continuing to work silently, collecting and recording these memories from around the world. They have a very important purpose.
The Bearer
- 繁體中文
This film is inspired by a true story. A Taiwanese village chief, honouring a promise to the elderly veteran Li, joins forces with his sister Xiuqin to fulfill a sibling reunion seventy years overdue.
Test Strike
- English (US)
A short AI film exploring morals in medieval Japan. During that time, samurai practiced a custom known as "tsujigiri" (辻斬り). This film is a brief sketch of how such an event might have unfolded.
Extraterrestrial Message, made with AI
- English (US)
In the future, Captain Daria receives a message from an alien civilization. An opportunity to discover a people and sumptuous landscapes. Actors, images, shooting, and music are all made with AI.
The Good, The Bad and The Bloodthirsty : The Four Horsemen
- English (US)
Four Native American vampires ride into an Old West town to reclaim their legacy in this action-packed gothic western.
The Jettison
- English (UK)
A scientist searches for his lost daughter in a wasteland at the end of the world, but finds that she isn’t what she seems. This is a horror film about AI, made using AI. It is also a homage to Chris Marker’s La Jetée. Here a different kind of post-apocalyptic future is explored: a haunting vision of a world in which machines now control everything, including our memories and our dreams. When a giant solar flare destroys all the machines, this dreamworld is completely shattered. Roth tries to piece things back together and deal with his grief.
Kingdom
In a world where traumas are uploaded into the minds of newborns, a global ensemble of infants faces the task of untangling free will from societal brainwashing.
SHORELINE 7
In a restricted zone on a fog-choked shoreline, a lone survivor documents the appearance of strange, otherworldly creatures—unaware this footage may be the last transmission Earth will ever receive.
The Cinema That Never Was
Have you ever wondered about all the films we lost—not to time, but to never having existed? Not abandoned projects, but films that were never written, never imagined, never even conceived. What if the cinema we know and love is just a fraction of what could have been? Let’s remember these films that were never made.
A ROBOT OF ME
- English (US)
A ROBOT OF ME is a short AI-generated film that plays out like a virtual reincarnation of Andy Warhol in the age of artificial intelligence. In an apparently mundane scene - Andy buying soup in a supermarket - a philosophical daydream begins to unfold. The film echoes his famous quote: “Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?” and raises the question of how Warhol might engage today with social media, AI, deepfakes, and prompts.
