The AI Project · 2026
AI International Film Festival
The AI International Film Festival is a Los Angeles programme screening AI-driven films and music videos from filmmakers around the world.
- Focus
- International AI film and music video
- Available films
- 5 to watch across editions
The AI Project
2026
Watch films
Recognized films available here, across the festival’s editions.
About the festival
Its 2026 Hollywood editions combine public screenings, filmmaker discussion and jury awards, with published winner lists that make completed films easier to verify and discover.
2026 edition
August 2026 winners published
- Next milestone
- Next festival · September 12, 2026
Results & selections
July 2026
View official resultsResults & selections
- FREYA - The Old Boy
Best Documentary; Best Fantasy; Audience Choice Best Use of AI
FREYA - The Old Boy
Artess D. - The Swamp
Best Music Video; Best Hybrid AI Film
The Swamp
Kristan Akerman and Steven Hagler
August 2026
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- BROTHER
Best Story
BROTHER
Makoto Aminaka - EVEN
Best Thriller; Audience Choice Best Film; Audience Choice Most Surprising
EVEN
Chansoo Park - LESSONS IN LIFE
Best Message, jury and audience
LESSONS IN LIFE
Pete Veijalainen - MANAS
Best AI Short; Best Documentary; Audience Choice Best Use of AI
MANAS
Yihang Yang and Peize Wang - 77 HOURS YY
Best Hybrid AI Film; Best Narrative Feature
77 HOURS YY
Vahid Mahdavi
Entry criteria
2026 published rules
Works may examine the consequences of AI or use AI extensively in their production. The festival accepts vertical and horizontal work across short, feature, documentary, experimental, animation, music video and web-series forms; non-English work requires English subtitles and entrants must control the necessary rights.
Festival judges determine official selections, screenings and awards, with decisions described as final. The organizer says it applies normal cinema criteria but does not publish a more specific scoring matrix; an audience-choice award is also offered.
Official rules