AAIFF · 2026
Astana AI Film Festival
The Astana AI Film Festival is a Kazakhstan-based international festival dedicated to new cinematic forms created with artificial intelligence.
- Focus
- International AI cinema
- Available films
- 2 to watch across editions
Watch films
Recognized films available here, across the festival’s editions.
About the festival
AAIFF combines open and thematic competitions in Astana, with generative AI required to play an integral role in each submitted film's creation.
2026 edition
Winners announced
- Prize pool
- $450,000 Grand Prix · $200,000 second · $100,000 third
- Film length
- 3 minutes minimum
- Who can enter
- International · free entry · AI integral to creation
Results & selections
Results & selections
- The First Honest Day
Grand Prix · $450,000
The First Honest Day
Nikolay Shestak - SITARA
Second prize · $200,000
SITARA
Abhik Banerjee - It Was Just a Joke
Best Character
It Was Just a Joke
Myrzakhan Zhumakhan
Entry criteria
2026 rules and submission terms
Films must run at least three minutes, use generative AI as an integral creative component, embed English subtitles when needed, disclose contributors and the AI pipeline, and be submitted during the published eligibility window. Open and theme-specific competitions have separate scope rules.
Entries receive a technical and eligibility review before an international commission determines the official selection; an independent international jury then determines festival awards.
Official rules