International AI Short Film Festival (1)

Category Description: AI Narrative & Experimental Shorts
This category welcomes short-form cinematic works that actively engage with the intersection of generative AI and visual storytelling. We are seeking innovative human-AI collaborative projects that push the boundaries of regional and global cinema narratives, moving fluidly from sharp digital realism to speculative science fiction.
Submission Guidelines:
Maximum Duration: 30 minutes.
Aesthetic Focus: Open to narrative fiction, non-fiction/documentary forms, and avant-garde experimental projects utilizing neural rendering or advanced digital compositing.
Ethical Transparency Mandate: All selected entries must provide a brief workflow disclosure upon acceptance (specifying software pipelines, general prompting methods, and human curation metrics) to maintain transparency in digital labor.

Category Description: National Competition (India)
This prestigious competitive category is strictly dedicated to filmmakers and digital artists based in India or from the global Indian diaspora. We are looking for visionary, ground-breaking short-form works that reflect the unique spatial and cultural realities of the subcontinent while fearlessly expanding into new narrative territories—from regional rurban realism to speculative science fiction and postmodern digital satire.
Submission Guidelines:
Eligibility: Open exclusively to projects where the director, producer, or primary production crew are citizens/residents of India, or identify as part of the global Indian diaspora.
Maximum Duration: 30 minutes.
Aesthetic Focus: Narrative, experimental, non-fiction, or animated shorts that heavily leverage human-AI collaboration, neural rendering, or innovative VFX pipelines.
Ethical Transparency Mandate: To celebrate and protect digital labor, all selected entries will be required to disclose a basic workflow overview (software manifest and curation metrics) prior to official festival exhibition.

Category Description: Global Panorama (Non-Competitive Showcase)
The Global Panorama is a non-competitive, curated screening space dedicated to celebrating the sheer breadth of human-AI collaborative cinema from around the world. Free from the constraints of formal judging, this category offers a highly visible global platform for filmmakers, visual artists, and software innovators to exhibit their boldest creative concepts, technical showreels, and boundary-pushing visual experiments.
Submission Guidelines:
Maximum Duration: 30 minutes.
Aesthetic Focus: Highly open. We welcome narrative, documentary, music video, abstract, and speculative sci-fi projects utilizing any generative AI, neural rendering, or digital compositing workflows.
Selection Process: Films submitted here are evaluated purely for curatorial fit and audience engagement for the live-stream programming.
Ethical Transparency Mandate: In alignment with our festival's core principles, selected participants are asked to share a brief software manifest and general workflow disclosure prior to the official screening showcase.