AI Animation Contests & Festivals

AIMA London 2026 – AI Movie Awards London

AIMA in collaboration with JD Media

AIMA jumps from Mallorca to the prestigious IET London for its first-ever UK edition — November 7–8, 2026. This edition expands AIMA beyond film into Art Image, Art Motion, Ads, and Music. Submissions run June 15 to October 10, 2026.

(UN)REAL AI Film Festival 2026

(UN)REAL Film Festival — Feat. Ventures / CAIA Consulting

An Italian festival for cinema made with or through artificial intelligence, held at Feat. House in Turin on November 27-28, 2026. Six categories (features, shorts up to 20 minutes, animation & motion, documentary, advertising, video art & experimental). Deadline October 31, finalists announced November 14. English SRT subtitles required.

VISIONARIA — International Festival of AI Cinema & Creativity

Visionaria

First-year Rome festival for films where AI plays a significant creative or production role, screening across six award categories with talks, masterclasses and immersive installations.

TAIFF — Türkiye International AI Film Festival (3rd Edition)

Türkiye International AI Film Festival

Türkiye's flagship AI film festival returns to Istanbul's Atatürk Cultural Center for a 3rd edition — 2,000+ submissions from 100+ countries so far. Grand Prize for Best AI Film plus new craft awards for AI Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Composer, VFX and more. Free FilmFreeway submission. Deadline Nov 1, 2026; screening at Yeşilçam Cinema Dec 7–9, 2026.

AI ZONE International AI Film Festival 2026

AI ZONE

Global online film festival dedicated exclusively to AI-generated cinema, now in its 2nd edition. Regular deadline 30 November 2026, with the festival on 15 January 2027; a $500 Grand Prize goes to a selected film that agrees to non-exclusive publication on the AI Zone platform.

World AI Cinema & Creativity Festival (WAICF) – India

Film Dais / Jaipur International Film Festival Trust

A Jaipur-based global AI film festival from the JIFF/Film Dais ecosystem, accepting AI-generated, AI-assisted and AI-enhanced films across eight competition categories plus separate AI innovation awards.

Jaipur International Film Festival — World AI Cinema Competition

Jaipur International Film Festival (JIFF)

A dedicated AI competition within the 19th Jaipur International Film Festival, open to AI-driven and AI-assisted storytelling across all formats, genres and languages.

AI Slop Film Festival 2027 (Season 2)

AI Slop Film Festival

Toronto-area festival that treats AI as a creative force in all its moods, welcoming polished AI films, hybrid productions, meme edits and deliberately chaotic experiments alike. Season 2 screens at Rumiversal Studio in Markham on 23 January 2027.

LAAIMPA — Los Angeles AI Motion Pictures Awards

LAAIMPA

Free entry, rolling monthly submissions — and every winner gets flown to Beverly Hills for the year-end ceremony. Submit by the 20th of any month, nominees announced the 28th, winners on the last day. Culminates in an exclusive in-person gala in Beverly Hills at the end of 2026. One of the only major AI film awards with a monthly winners cycle.

Berlin AI Film Festival (2nd Edition)

Berlin AI Film Festival

Second edition of the Berlin AI film festival accepting both 100% AI-generated films and hybrid works with meaningful AI integration. Low entry fees ($10–$40 depending on deadline tier). Event February 16–17, 2027.

Runway Hundred Film Fund

Runway

Rolling grant fund offering $5K–$1M+ per project plus up to $2M in Runway credits. Decisions within ~14 days.

Hollywood AI Short Film Awards (HASFA) 2027

Hollywood AI Short Film Awards

Second season of the Hollywood AI Short Film Awards, honouring films that make meaningful creative use of AI across development, production, post, animation, visual design and audio. The 2027 ceremony runs during Super Bowl Weekend at the London West Hollywood Screening Room on 13 February 2027.

WAIFF Los Angeles 2026 — World AI Film Festival USA

World AI Film Festival (WAIFF) / Institut EuropIA

Hollywood's biggest AI cinema moment of 2026. The U.S. edition of the World AI Film Festival lands in Los Angeles in late March 2027, and the top five films advance to the WAIFF Cannes 2027 Grand Finale at the Palais des Festivals. Nine categories — Live Action Short, Feature, Animated, Doc, Vertical/Mobile, Music Video, Ad, AR/VR/XR, Gaming. Submit before the LA cut-off and your film could be on a Cannes red carpet at WAIFF Cannes 2027.

AI CINEMA — Independent AI Film Festival (Montréal) 2027

Funamis

An independent Montréal AI film festival screening works from micro-shorts to features that use AI as a meaningful creative tool, with 25+ award categories from Grand Prize to Best Prompt.

Seoul International AI Film Festival (SIAFF) 2027 — 6th Edition

Seoul International AI Film Festival

Sixth edition of Seoul's AI film festival, with an awards ceremony, screening and gala on 30 May 2027 at the enTravel Cultural Complex in Gangnam, followed by a director–audience talk on 31 May. Around eighteen award categories cover AI film, music video, animation, screenplay, sound design and visual effects.

Sin Cámara — Festival de Cortos IA en Español (2nd Edition)

Aplimedia, S.L.

Second edition of a Spanish-language AI short film festival for creators in Spain and Latin America. Shorts run 30 seconds to 3 minutes, entry is free, and public voting picks the finalists.

MetaMorph AI Film Award 2027

MetaMorph — founders Ruby Griffiths and Stephan Baum

London awards night for films where AI did real work, not decoration: the rules ask for AI in at least 50% of the creative or production process, and hybrid AI plus live action is explicitly welcome. Fifteen categories, including two split by budget so a £900 film is not judged against a £30,000 one. Regular deadline Apr 30 2027, late May 8, extended May 15.

London AI Independent

London AI Independent (Sirlute Studios, Canary Wharf)

New London festival for independent films where AI contributes meaningfully but does not have to dominate the finished work. Rolling monthly deadlines from October 2, 2026 to June 2, 2027, a first screening and director Q&A at Sirlute Studios on October 4, 2026, and the main event on June 19, 2027. Studio-financed films are not eligible.

Chroma Awards — Season 2

Chroma Awards (incubated by ElevenLabs)

Season 2 of the ElevenLabs-incubated AI film and media competition (founded 2023 as Project Odyssey). The official site says Season 2 launches in mid-October 2026 with six divisions: Film, Advertising, Music Video, Song, Game and Behind-the-Scenes, across 51 categories. Deadline, prize pool and entry fee had not been published as of October 7, 2026. Season 1 drew 6,500+ entries and paid over $175,000 in cash plus $1M+ in tool credits.