We are proud to present the 14 groundbreaking films selected as finalists for the AIFA Awards 2025. These innovative works push the boundaries of AI-generated filmmaking, showcasing extraordinary creativity, technical innovation, and powerful storytelling.
Leilanni Todd, 2024
Everyone is Chair is a short AI-generated film about a woman's surreal obsession with inflatable chairs—worn as both fashion and survival gear. Inspired by images of New Yorkers wading through flooded subway stations, and the director's own experience working remotely in a desk chair for 12 hours a day, the film raises questions about adaptation, routine, and transformation.
Junie Lau, 2024
After retirement, the former mathematical genius transformed into the creator of digital comics. He became the god of this fictional universe, where time and dimensions wander under his pen. In his story, there are three characters given life—Alpha (α), Beta (β), and Gamma (γ). Like his virtual children, they linger amid the intricacies of digits. One day, the mathematician drifted into an eternal slumber, never to awaken again. They began to sense each other's existence and attempted to decode the mysteries of this world, searching for an exit to reality. In this elusive exploration, they mistakenly thought they had touched the edge of truth, only to discover that everything was a castle in the air.
S()fia Braga, 2025
Third Impact is an AI-generated movie that explores the future of human and non-human collaboration. The film centers around a quantum computer whose goal is to prevent the extinction of organic life on Earth, as the planet's temperatures continue to rise and extreme weather events intensify. As this very sophisticated computational machine carries out its mission, an unknown event occurs, resulting in the disappearance of all remaining forms of organic life on the planet. This event prompts the quantum machine to question its own existence and purpose, leading to an emotional journey of self-discovery from the machine perspective.
Rachel Maclean, 2023
Acclaimed artist and filmmaker Rachel Maclean's first deepfake film takes place within a world of artifice, subterfuge and intrigue. DUCK is unique in entirely using deefake video and audio, resurrecting actors via machine-learning. Visually captivating, funny, and technically innovative, DUCK takes elements from classic Hollywood, video games, film noir, and sci-fi to raise compelling questions about truth and power, and to satirise some of the more histrionic narratives pushed by the media regarding deepfakes and their contribution to the 'decline of truth'.
Gabriel Aronson, 2024
Artomaton Telezine is "found footage" from the vault of The Fair, a massive international exposition that may or may not have happened.
Raaphaël Frydman, 2024
Raphaël, a 10 years old boy, spends his day watching his ceilling, where he's mentally projecting a funny movie about the afterlife.
Nora Hase, 2024
Instead of prominent and loud resistance, I'd like to be quiet today. Assert my existence by simply being, by staying still and being witnessed. An diasporic exploration of pan-african futurism from a black german point of view, in part inspired by the thoughts and curation of Ekow Eshun and the readings of Kevin E. Quashie's "The Sovereignty of Quiet".
Fouzi Louahem, 2024
The title AQUA ALTA — referring to the high tides in Venice — acts as a metaphor for a world on the verge of submersion, where reality becomes unstable and blurred. The film stages a silent encounter between humanity and deep-sea beings — hybrid, spectral figures emerging from the collective unconscious or a buried future. This wordless narrative unfolds through an immersive visual atmosphere, deliberately unsteady, where each image seems to surface from a dream or fragmented memory. Created entirely with AI tools (Midjourney, Runway), AQUA ALTA explores not only cinematic form, but also the creative process itself: what does it mean to "film" without a camera? How can we compose sequences outside of real time?
Ariel Kotzer, 2024
Set against the backdrop of 1960s and 1970s Israel, this experimental montage film, based on a sequence from Alan J Pakula's "The Parallax View", explores the psychological and emotional effects of societal programming through the lens of personal memory. Blending nostalgia with growing tension, the film mirrors the protagonist's journey from innocence to disillusionment. Childhood recollections of love, family, and home slowly give way to the weight of national pride, conflict, and identity. As the idyllic scenes are disrupted by war, patriotism, and existential questioning, the montage builds into chaos, reflecting the inner turmoil of a life shaped by external forces. In the end, the film returns to its simple beginnings.
Hussein Dembel Sow, 2024
Thiaroye 44 is a groundbreaking AI-generated film directed by Senegalese filmmaker Hussein Dembel Sow. The film revisits the tragic events of the Thiaroye massacre, where in 1944, French colonial forces killed West African soldiers who were demanding fair compensation after serving in World War II. By integrating advanced generative AI technologies, Sow brings a fresh perspective to this historical atrocity, blending traditional storytelling with modern innovation. The film premiered in Dakar, emphasizing the importance of remembering and honoring the sacrifices of these soldiers. Thiaroye 44 stands as a testament to the power of technology in preserving and reinterpreting history, ensuring that the voices of the past continue to resonate with contemporary audiences.
Roxanne Ducharme, 2024
FOSSiLS is a poetic exploration of humanity's impermanence and the traces we leave behind. In films and books, our species never fades away. We love to believe we're immortal that way! Yet millennia conquer all in time's endless chase. What if we're but dinosaurs, awaiting our fate? When the elements have burned all our ships, and the grandest works of nations are swept away, it is foretold that the Earth will breathe once more. And one distant day, in the deep abyss below, faint hearts will begin to beat again. But somewhere, somehow, there will remain traces of us— lingering whispers of who we were.
Diego Maclean, 2024
Reflections on the nature of memory.
Simon Ball, 2024
A man and a woman fall into an imaginary prison.
Aleem Hossain, 2024
In this Desi-Futurist short film, a documentarian sneaks into the New Jersey exclusion zone to explore what the abandoned Bangladroids recall of their homeland.
For all enquiries and to stay up to date, sign up below. For any questions, send us a message.