CapCut · Road to Cannes 2026
CapCut AI Short Film Contest
The CapCut AI Short Film Contest is a 2026 short-film competition whose selected creators advanced directly to the World AI Film Festival in Cannes.
- Focus
- AI short films
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Road to Cannes 2026
About the festival
Road to Cannes invited five-to-ten-minute films across action, animation, emotion and fantasy. The 2026 contest advanced its winners directly into the World AI Film Festival competition, making the programme a bridge from an open creator challenge to an international festival stage.
CapCut's page says its winners were announced on 21 March, but the reviewed official page does not identify the two Grand Prize or ten Excellence Award recipients. Hollywood.AI will not source those names from reposts.
Entry criteria
Road to Cannes 2026 entry requirements
Films must run five to ten minutes, use CapCut's AI Video feature or AI Video Maker, fit the action, animation, emotion or fantasy genres, and be in English or carry English subtitles. Entrants must also publish with the specified campaign tag.
CapCut names two Grand Prize and ten Excellence Award recipients. Those selected entries advance directly to the World AI Film Festival competition.
Official rules