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Festivals & special events

AI film festivals and hashtag waves, tracked as they happen on YouTube. Each page carries the background, who runs it, what the call was, and every tagged film, rated by this community.

Higgsfield Global Film Festival
A $1,000,000 prize pool judged by Edwin Catmull, Phedon Papamichael, Paul W. S. Anderson and Alex Proyas
748 films
Astana AI Film Festival 2026
The open call that filled YouTube with #SpecialForAAIFF
155 films · Astana, Kazakhstan
The Chroma Awards
The largest online AI film, music video and ad competition
70 films · Online, worldwide
World AI Film Festival (WAIFF)
The travelling world festival: Nice, Seoul, London
51 films · Nice, France / Seoul / London
Project Odyssey
Civitai's giant open AI filmmaking competition
46 films · Online, worldwide
Neu Wave AI Film Festival
42 films
Reply AI Film Festival
AI shorts premiered on the Lido, alongside the Venice Film Festival
35 films · Venice, Italy
Seoul International AI Film Festival
34 films · Seoul
AI International Film Festival
33 films · Hollywood
AI Film 3 (AI Film & Art Festival)
The Arizona and Las Vegas AI film and art festival
23 films · Arizona / Las Vegas, USA
Bali International AI Film Festival
AI cinema screened at Paradiso Ubud, Bali
23 films · Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
WAIFF Japan
18 films · Kyoto
AI London Film Festival
12 films · London
Artefact AI Film Festival
12 films
AI Film Awards Cannes
9 films · Cannes
Red Rocks AI Film Festival
8 films
NextGen Creative Contest
7 films
Cannes World Film Festival
6 films
Generative AI Short Film Festival
5 films
Kling AI 4K Contest
5 films
New York International Film Awards
5 films · New York
AI Video Awards
4 films
Berlin Indie Film Festival
3 films · Berlin
Glow International Film Festival
3 films
Los Angeles Film Awards
3 films · Los Angeles