Disrupt · 2026
Disrupt:AI Film Festival
The Disrupt:AI Film Festival is an Australian festival examining the relationship between human imagination and the tools used to express it.
- Focus
- AI film and creative technology
- Available films
- 3 to watch across editions
DISRUPT
2026
Watch films
Recognized films available here, across the festival’s editions.
About the festival
Disrupt approaches AI film through authorship and creative technology, with an Australian programme built around screenings, conversation and artistic practice.
2026 edition
Submissions are open
- Next milestone
- Melbourne gala · November 18, 2026
Results & selections
Results & selections
- Erase
Long Film winner
Erase
Ashanth Phillips - Lens Wide Open
Short Film winner
Lens Wide Open
Bruce Hunt
Entry criteria
2026 submission guidance
Films must be Australian-made final cuts completed within the previous twelve months, not previously screened or distributed in Victoria before the published cutoff, and created using generative AI for visuals, audio, effects, animation or another material element. Category runtime limits apply.
Selected finalists screen in Melbourne and Sydney; category winners and the Grand Prix are announced at the Melbourne awards gala.
Official rules