AI Film Contests in International / Global

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.

Cue Film Fest — Cue Xmas '26

AFRO TV / Cue Film Fest

Your AI Christmas short could air live on national cable TV. Cue Film Fest's inaugural holiday edition broadcasts December 12 on AFRO TV (Comcast Xfinity ch. 1623) and NOW TV, with winners decided live by viewer voting and a jury. Free to enter: submit a 2:00–6:00 AI short film or AI music video with a Christmas theme, built from multiple intentional, edited shots (a single unedited AI-generated clip is not eligible). Four cash awards — Best Film, Best Image, Best Sound and Best AI Music Video — with the Best Film grand prize announced last on the live broadcast.

AI Film Award 2027 — 1 Billion Followers Summit

1 Billion Followers Summit

Make an original 5-7 minute film, at least 70% generated with Seedance, on one of five humanity-focused themes. The Top 5 premiere at the 1 Billion Followers Summit in Dubai, where one creator wins $1,000,000.

SVAIFF Korea 2026

이파크 에이아이 주식회사, 한국AI마케팅연구소

The SVAIFF Korea 2026 invites submissions for AI-generated films and videos, focusing on various categories including narrative, animation, and documentary. The festival aims to connect Korean creators with the international stage, showcasing innovative storytelling through AI. Winners will be awarded in multiple categories, with a total prize pool of 30 million KRW.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

JIFF World AI Cinema Competition 2027 — Jaipur

Jaipur International Film Festival (JIFF)

Jaipur International Film Festival's World AI Cinema Competition, hosted during JIFF Jan 8–12, 2027. Deadlines: early bird Aug 15, late Oct 15, extended Nov 15, final Dec 5, 2026. Nomination lists are published Nov 5, Dec 5 and Dec 21, 2026 (Dec 21 is the final list, not the submission deadline). Categories include AI Student Film, AI Short, Feature, Documentary, Animation, Music Video and AI Screenplay. Open to filmmakers, students and creators from all continents. Verified on jiffindia.org Sep 19, 2026.

2026 AI Holiday Film Competition — Curious Refuge x Epidemic Sound

Curious Refuge x Epidemic Sound

The largest prize pool ever for a fully AI-generated holiday short — Epidemic Sound and Curious Refuge return with $7,500+ in cash for winners. Warm, weird, or wildly cinematic — make something people rewatch every December. Deadline December 6.

Turquoise International AI Film Festival (Turkuaz) — Ankara

Turquoise AI Film Festival

Inaugural AI film festival in Ankara, Turkey, screening international and national competition entries across AI film, commercial, and music-video categories. AI use must be visually significant on screen, not just used for scripting or post-production support.

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.

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.

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.

AKOOL AI Film Challenge

AKOOL

AKOOL's AI Film Challenge has three categories: Coming Never (an original 30 to 90 second trailer for a film that does not exist), AI Short Film, and Impossible (ideas that could not have been made before AI). Other tools are allowed, but AKOOL must be meaningfully used in the final film. Apply via AKOOL's form, publish the film tagging @AKOOL with #AKOOLFilmChallenge, then submit and explain how you used AKOOL.

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.

NEXMUSE AI Music Video Contest 2027

AI Art Co., Ltd. (NEXMUSE)

An international AI music video contest where entrants build an original AI-made song and video around one of 24 AI idol-hopeful characters NEXMUSE provides, with winning tracks getting a professional re-arrangement and an official idol-album debut.

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.

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.

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.

NeoCinema AI Film Festival — The Statuette for Algorithmic Art

NeoCinema

A new statuette enters the AI film circuit. NeoCinema awards a custom-fabricated trophy plus dedicated winner profiles across festival channels — three categories cover AI music videos, microshorts under 3 min, and hybrid live-action/AI films. Built for filmmakers who want their algorithmic work taken seriously.

Runway Hundred Film Fund

Runway

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

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.

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.

Global AI Music Video Awards (GAIMVA) 2027

GAIMVA / Festhome

The first international awards festival dedicated exclusively to AI-generated and AI-assisted music videos. Deadline January 1, 2027. Welcomes fully AI-generated, hybrid, experimental, narrative, performance-based, animated, vertical, student-made, and human+AI collaboration works — the widest AI music video category set anywhere.

IA Play International Film Festival Madrid

Cultural Beast

A €6-entry gateway into Madrid's AI film circuit — one of the cheapest submission fees around — with a January 1, 2027 final deadline and four distinct sections spanning 100% AI fiction, animation, hybrid narrative and web series. Gala screening March 20, 2027 at Cine Artistic Metropol.

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). Submissions opened October 19, 2026 and close January 7, 2027 at 11:45 PM PT. Five divisions (Film, Advertising, Music Video, Games, Behind-the-Scenes) plus Student Awards; $450,000+ in cash and travel perks. Projects made after February 1, 2026 are eligible, unlimited entries, one category per project. Winners announced February 11, 2027; gala April 2027.

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.

World AI Film Festival — Los Angeles 2026

Institut EuropIA / WAIFF

The US edition of the World AI Film Festival lands in Los Angeles in late March 2027 — and the top 5 films advance straight to the WAIFF Cannes 2027 Grand Finale at the Palais des Festivals. Nine categories (Live Action Short, Feature, Animated, Doc, Vertical, Music Video, Ad, AR/VR/XR, Gaming) means almost any AI film fits. This is your Cannes pipeline.

LundinStudio AI Film Festival 2027 (Australia's First)

LundinStudio

Australia's first AI film festival — rolling monthly deadlines through January 2027 mean you can submit on your timeline. Win cash back on your submission fee plus pro subscriptions to Saga and Melies. Live screening in Sydney, March 18-19, 2027.

Expo AI Film Festival Dubai 2027

Expo City Dubai / Dubai Film & TV Commission

Dubai's official government-backed AI film festival, hosted at the Expo City venue. Best AI Short Film category accepting films under 10 minutes built with AI tools across script, image, video, or sound. Earlybird May 14, final deadline January 21, 2027, event March 2027.

Cannes Film Awards 2027 — New AI Category

Cannes Film Awards

Cannes Film Awards just opened dedicated categories for AI films, VR, games, and 360° video for the very first time. Event date: June 25–27, 2027 on the Riviera. $1K+ cash and $25K+ in promotional/partner awards on the line. If you want a Cannes credit on an AI short, this is the cleanest entry point on the calendar.

AI Cinema Festival Québec City 2027

AI Cinema Festival

Duplicate listing — see /contests/ai-cinema-quebec-city-2027. Québec City opens submissions for the first-ever regional AI cinema festival — a three-day event Feb 19–21, 2027, judged on point of view, image, sound, editing, story, consent, responsibility and emotional impact. Hybrid human + AI or fully AI-generated works both welcome. Deadline: Jan 24, 2027.

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.

IA Play International Film Festival — Panamá

IA Play International Film Festival / Cultural Beast

International competition for AI-driven audiovisual work, with online screenings and a public/jury vote in Panama City feeding into a Grand Final among the festival's host cities. Accepts fiction, documentary, experimental, animation, and hybrid AI+traditional works up to 40 minutes.

AI CINEMA — Independent AI Film Festival (Montréal) 2027

Funamis

Duplicate listing — see /contests/ai-cinema-festival-montreal-2027. 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.

AI CINEMA — Festival of AI Filmmaking, Montréal 2027

AI Cinema Festival

Montréal joins the AI cinema circuit — one intense day of screenings and awards March 5, 2027. Six award groups celebrate work made with AI as a meaningful creative force: generation, direction, animation, sound, or post. Pure live-action need not apply. Decisions by Feb 15, 2027. Submissions open on FilmFreeway now — deadline Feb 5, 2027.

Milan AI Festival — First Edition

VIA — Visual Innovation Awards

A new AI film and design competition in Milan with eight categories spanning fashion film, design, architecture and narrative shorts, from the team behind the Rome and Florence AI Festivals. Winners screen live in Milan on April 15, 2027.

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.

Twin Rivers AI Film Festival 2027 (1st Annual)

Twin Rivers Media Festival / Flood Gallery

The first AI-dedicated edition of North Carolina's long-running Twin Rivers Media Festival, screening AI-made shorts, animation, documentaries and more live at the Flood Gallery in Asheville.

World Film Festival in Cannes — Remember the Future (Best AI Film 2027)

World Film Festival in Cannes — Remember the Future

The first festival in the world to establish a "Best Artificial Intelligence Film" category — back in 2020. Submissions are accepted year-round; entries received by March 30, 2027 qualify for the prestigious Annual Gala in Cannes at the Pullman Cannes Mandelieu.

K-Culture AI International Film Festival (KCAIF) 2027

Korea AI Film Festival Association (KAIFA)

Seoul's K-Culture AI International Film Festival returns for a 2027 edition with 16 competition categories — from AI Direction to AI Commercials — and tiered entry fees as low as $10 for Gold members. Earlybird deadline January 31, 2027; final cutoff April 10.

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.

AI Cinema Festival NYC — July 2027

AI Cinema Festival

New York City gets its own AI cinema festival — three days of screenings, conversations and awards July 16–18, 2027. Grand Prix NYC, Best Human + AI Direction, Best AI Cinematography, Responsible AI Cinema Award and Audience Signal Award on the table. Not a prompt contest — a film culture event for directors, editors, actors, writers and technologists who care about story and consent. Deadline: June 20, 2027.

AI Cinema Festival Cannes 2027

AI Cinema Festival

Cannes is opening its doors to human-led AI cinema — and this is your shot at a Grand Prix Cannes trophy. The AI Cinema Festival Cannes runs November 12–14, 2027 in the city that defines global film prestige, with awards for Best Human + AI Direction, Best AI Cinematography, and the Responsible AI Cinema Award. Long runway, real stakes.

Kerala International AI Film Festival (KIAFF) 2027 — Kochi

School of Storytelling (KIAFF)

A premier AI film festival in Kochi, India uniting filmmakers, technologists and artists to showcase audiovisual short-format works that demonstrate innovative use of AI. Six award categories including Best AI Film and Best Experimental Film.

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.

MetaMorph x TapNow — Summer Activation

MetaMorph × TapNow

Fourth and final 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.