AI Short Film Contests & Festivals

A Gossip Goblin GenJam

645 Ventures, Machine Cinema, Google DeepMind, Showrunner and Gossip Goblin

An in-person generative AI film jam at Google DeepMind in San Francisco. Fifteen accepted teams get one Gossip Goblin seed clip and one evening to turn it into a short film of up to two minutes. Application only, reviewed on a rolling basis.

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.

AI Movie Awards: AIMA

AI Movie Awards

An AI-focused festival for films, music videos, music, art, and ads created primarily with AI tools. Winners are screened at IET London in London, United Kingdom.

orhena AI Contest 2026

orhena

Post an AI-made video or image on orhena with #orhenaContest and share it on X or Instagram to enter; three cash winners plus a free Pro month for every entrant.

Tel Aviv AI Film Festival (TLVAIFF)

TLVAIFF Team

A first-edition, one-day competition for short AI-generated films at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, held as part of Tel Aviv AI Week and centered on a creative bridge between Israel and India.

MetaMorph x TapNow — Autumn Activation

MetaMorph × TapNow

First of four free seasonal AI filmmaking competitions leading to the MetaMorph AI Award 2027; at least 50% of each film must be generated with TapNow.

All Is Prompt (Todo es Prompt) AI Film Festival 2026 — 2nd Edition

Todo es Prompt — Aldo Massone

A Spanish-and-English online festival out of Mexico City for films built with AI tools, now in its second edition. Entry starts under $2, it takes AI features up to two hours as well as shorts, and awards go to craft categories like Best AI Cinematography and Best Emerging AI Director. Extended deadline Oct 25, festival Oct 29 to Nov 4.

OpenCV AI Competition 2026

Open Source Vision Foundation (OpenCV)

This global competition invites developers to create applications using image or video analysis to solve real-world problems. Prizes total $12,000, with $5,000 for first place. The competition runs from August 26 to October 26, 2026.

AI Film Festival Africa (AIFFA)

LeCinema

A festival for filmmakers worldwide who use AI to imagine Africa's future, built around the 2026 challenge "What does Africa look like in 2063?"

(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.

PixLight 2026

PixVerse

PixLight 2026 is PixVerse's free annual AI film contest with a $300,000 prize pool across 33 awards. Pilot Track: a finished 3 to 20 minute AI short or pilot episode made with PixVerse Canvas as the primary platform. Script Track: a 45 to 90 minute feature screenplay plus a short video pitch. Three genre directions: Under the Skin, Worlds Beyond and Edge of Seat. Deadline extended from October 9 to October 31, 2026. Creators keep ownership of their work.

Video Hackers Film Festival 2026 (10th Edition)

Video Hackers Film Festival

A global online festival in its 10th year celebrating independent film, AI cinema, and experimental visual languages, with a dedicated AI Generated Film category alongside fiction, documentary, animation, and music video sections.

AI M0V1E Film Festival

AI M0V1E

A festival and streaming showcase for AI-generated films and series, spanning every genre from sci-fi and horror to documentary and experimental work.

International AI Short Film Festival (IASFF)

IASFF Collective

A curated global showcase for decentralized cinema and human-AI collaborative narrative, screening biannually on YouTube and bridging raw AI technology with cinematic storytelling.

AI New York Awards

Cre8ive NYC (Festival Director Iwona Rydz)

An intimate AI-film awards evening in Manhattan spotlighting short narrative, music-video, and commercial work made with generative AI.

WAIFF London 2026 — World AI Film Festival UK

World AI Film Festival (WAIFF) UK edition

The UK edition of the World AI Film Festival, held November 24, 2026 at Bloomsbury Big Top in London. Open to UK-based creators aged 13 and up across eight categories, from live-action shorts and features to vertical micro-series and 3D Worlds. From 11 winners, a jury selects 5 works to advance to the WAIFF Cannes 2027 Grand Finale, and one is named WAIFF London Grand Prix.

Cine Prague AI Film Festival 2026

Cine Prague AI Film Festival

International AI short film festival in Prague welcoming AI-generated, AI-assisted and traditional short films up to 5 minutes; finalists screen at Kino Edison with a $1,000 Grand Prix awarded December 1, 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.

Veritas AI Film Festival

Veritas AIFF

Canada's first film festival dedicated to AI filmmaking: a one-day, one-screening showcase of 16 AI-made short films at Torontos Carlton Cinema.

AI for the Future Festival — COP31 Edition 2026

AI for the Future — curator Lisa Russell

The fourth and final 2026 category of a festival that screens AI work inside United Nations convenings rather than a cinema. This round is aligned to COP31 and wants climate storytelling: resilience, ecological futures, biodiversity and just transitions. Film, photography, music and script all accepted. Deadline Nov 30, awards event Dec 15.

Artefact AI Film Festival — 3rd Edition, "(Dis)Connection"

Artefact and mk2

Third edition of the Paris short film festival for work made with generative AI, run by Artefact with mk2, with Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano as jury presidents. Theme: (Dis)Connection. Films can run up to 314 seconds, one entry per person, and must use at least one Gen AI tool in each of pre-production, production and post-production. Grand prize €10,000 plus a 30-second cut of the winning film screened in all mk2 theaters for one week.

Artefact AI Film Festival — 3rd Edition, "(Dis)Connection"

Artefact x mk2

Third edition of the Paris short film festival for work made with generative AI, run by Artefact with mk2. Films can run up to 314 seconds and must use at least one Gen AI tool in each of pre-production, production and post-production; the grand prize is €10,000.

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 Artist Festival — 6th Season 2026

AI Artist Festival

6th season of the AI Artist Festival, with screenings in Beijing on December 26-27, 2026. Four sections: AI-generated films, AI and real-shot or animation hybrids, AI VJ and music, and AI advertisements.

Gossip Goblin x Showrunner Competition

Showrunner (Fable)

Make a 2 to 20 minute short film in Showrunner Studio set in the Gossip Goblin universe. Every story starts with a client sitting down in a Ripper Doc's chair.

Florence AI Festival (FAIF)

VIA - Visual Innovation Awards

First edition of an international AI film competition from VIA - Visual Innovation Awards, the organisers of the Rome AI Festival. Eight categories (Horror, Animation, Documentary, Narrative, Comedy, Music Video, Commercial, Fantasy/Sci-Fi "New World"), 20-minute runtime cap. Late deadline October 15, 2026; extended deadline December 15, 2026. Winners announced live at Palazzo San Niccolo, Florence, on January 15, 2027.

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.

AI Film & Ads Awards India

KM Universe

India's international AI film + ads awards from KM Universe — five competitive categories all eligible for the Crystal Brain Award. Currently offering a 50% discount with code AIFILMAWARDSMUMBAI. One of the few AI awards specifically welcoming both narrative shorts AND commercial ad work in the same competition.

AI Film Awards Las Vegas

AI Film Awards

The AI Film Awards franchise expands to Las Vegas — designed to elevate and celebrate cinematic work created with AI in one of the world's most iconic entertainment destinations. Submissions via FilmFreeway. Positions your AI film in a Vegas-branded awards circuit that already runs in Bali and Cannes.

WAIFF Africa — Abidjan 2027

World AI Film Festival (WAIFF) / Institut EuropIA

Pan-African regional edition of the World AI Film Festival based in Abidjan, open to creators from ten Francophone West/Central African countries; the five jury-selected films advance to the WAIFF Cannes 2027 Road to Cannes Selection.

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 Film Festival 2027 (LundinStudio)

LundinStudio

LundinStudio's third annual AI short film festival; ten finalists are showcased via a live event stream and judged on storytelling, character consistency, pacing, cinematography and production value.

Ai Film Festival — IMDb-Qualifying Screening 2027

Ai Film Festival

IMDb-qualifying AI festival run by LundinStudio with staged monthly cutoffs (Oct 15, Nov 19, Dec 17 and a final deadline of 21 January 2027) leading to a screening event on 18-19 March 2027. Best AI Short Film requires an original script with AI-generated shots in every scene, 1-10 minutes including credits.

AI Cinema Festival Québec City 2027

AI Cinema Festival Network

A bilingual Québec City festival for hybrid human+AI and fully AI-generated films, judged on cinematic craft, story and ethics rather than the tools used.

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.

World AI Film Festival (Cannes) 2027

WAIFF / Institut EuropIA

The Cannes grand finale of the World AI Film Festival's global circuit, bringing category winners from WAIFF's regional editions to the Palais des Festivals.

PROMPT Festival 2027 — Toronto

PROMPT Festival

Toronto's AI-native cinema festival, back after an inaugural 2026 season at the Black Box in Scarborough. It accepts anything where AI touched the pipeline, in any genre, and runs ten rolling deadlines instead of one cliff. Fifteen award categories, including the signature Best Prompt. Final deadline, 'Last Frame', is Apr 16 2027.

UK Film AI Awards 2027

UK Film Network

UK-based AI short film award for films of 10 minutes or under where AI plays a meaningful creative role in fully AI or hybrid productions; ten finalists screen live at London Film School in May 2027.

Horizons IA 2027 — Punta del Este, Uruguay

Horizons IA

International AI short film festival in Punta del Este, Uruguay, judging fiction/documentary, experimental/music video, and advertising shorts where AI use is central and decisive; free-admission screening event in May 2027.

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.

NYC Indie Cinema and AI 2027

NYC Indie Cinema and AI

A Brooklyn festival for independent filmmakers who use AI tools anywhere in production, judged as films first and tech demos never.

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.

International AI Film Festival of Kerala (AIFFK) 2027

School of Storytelling

Third edition of Kerala's AI film festival (formerly branded KIAFF), for AI-generated and AI-assisted audiovisual short works across six award categories including Best AI Film and Best Cinematography, held in Kochi January 22-24, 2027. Official site lists the deadline as "31 Nov 2026" (recorded here as Nov 30, the nearest valid date).

MetaMorph x TapNow — Winter Activation

MetaMorph × TapNow

Second of four free seasonal AI filmmaking competitions leading to the MetaMorph AI Award 2027; at least 50% of each film must be generated with TapNow on a public canvas.

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.

MetaMorph x TapNow — Spring Activation

MetaMorph × TapNow

Third of four free seasonal AI filmmaking competitions leading to the MetaMorph AI Award 2027; at least 50% of each film must be generated with TapNow on a public canvas.

Bengaluru International Short Film Festival — AI Film Category (17th Edition)

Bengaluru International Short Film Festival (BISFF)

India's only Oscar-qualifying short film festival runs a dedicated "Machine Made Movies" AI Film competition section alongside its International and Indian programs.

AI for Good Film Festival 2027

ITU / UN AI for Good

The UN's AI for Good Film Festival returns for 2027: 1-10 minute films where AI is a core part of the filmmaking, completed between September 1, 2026 and May 1, 2027. Finalists are invited to the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva (June 21-25, 2027) with a speaker pass and a public premiere screening.