AI Film Festival Japan 2025 — Main Venue (TiB 2F)
Dates: Nov 2 (Sun) – Nov 3 (Mon, Holiday), 2025. Draft schedule; items are subject to change.
| Time | Main Stage (Free) |
|---|---|
| 12:30 | Doors Open |
| 13:30 | Opening Film Screening — “Bones of Yew” Director: Toby Hyder (on stage) |
| 13:50 | Pre-talk: “Why an AI Film Festival Now?” Moderator: 池田裕行; Speakers: 白井暁彦 (AICU; Visiting Prof., Digital Hollywood University), 小澤健祐 (AICX Association; Google “Gemini” Advisor) |
| 14:50 | Opening Address — 池田裕行 |
| 15:00 | Session 1: “How Will AI Change Filmmaking?” Moderator: 会田正裕; Guests: Yves Dalbiez (Film Director), ツジヤスヒロ (AI Innovation Director, Asahi Advertising), 曽根隼人 (Film Director), 大沢幸弘 (Kochi University of Technology, Visiting Prof.) |
| 15:50 | Break |
| 16:00 | AI Film Festival Japan 2025 — Awards Ceremony |
| 18:00 | Networking Reception |
| 19:30 | End (approx.) |
| Time | Main Stage (Free) |
|---|---|
| 09:30 | Doors Open |
| 10:30 | Session 2: “Documentary in the AI Era” Moderator: 福澤真由美; Guests: 浜野高宏 (Former NHK Producer), 仲沢勇人 (AI Start-up Lawyer, ant Law Office), 齋藤潤(AI Kingdom) |
| 11:20 | Break |
| 11:30 | Session 3: “How We Made the AI Film ‘Granmarebito’ ” Moderator: 池田裕行; Speaker: 山口ヒロキ (Film Director, Gaumapix) |
| 12:45 | Special Talk — Toby Hyder Film Director |
| 13:30 | Session 4: “Animation and AI” Moderator: 土屋勝裕; Guests: 中山雅弘 (CEO, Puri Prince Inc.), 赤堀重雄 (Animation Creator), 齋藤潤(AI Kingdom) |
| 14:30 | Break |
| 15:00 | Session 5: “AI-based Evaluation of AI Films” Moderator: 栗本一紀; Guests: 那小川 (CEO, Trans-N Inc.), 劉若一 (Head of Corporate, Trans-N Inc.) |
| 16:00 | Session 6: “Behind the Scenes of ‘MATILDA: Devil’s Gene’ ” Moderator: 池田裕行; Guest: 遠藤久美子 (Film Director) |
| 17:00 | Closing Film Screening — “2043” Director: Simone Sighinolfi |
| 17:15 | Masterclass by Director Simone Sighinolfi |
| 18:30 | Closing Ceremony |
| 19:00 | End (approx.) |
Copyright: AI Film Festival Japan 2025
AI日本国際映画祭 2025 — スクリーニング会場 上映プログラム
時間・内容は変更となる場合があります。
| 時間 | プログラム | 作品名 | 監督 | カテゴリー | 上映時間 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13:00 | A — ファイナリスト | Between Spaces | Bryan Ebzery | Narrative | 8:41 |
| 13:00 | A — ファイナリスト | We the Change | Eric Oldrin, Jeremy Clark, Michael Goedecke, Antonio Marcato | Documentary | 5:50 |
| 13:00 | A — ファイナリスト | Last Call Before A.G.I | Matt Zien | Experimental | 5:13 |
| 13:00 | A — ファイナリスト | WALLED DREAMS | Bee Han, Yixuan Niu | Animation | 4:50 |
| 13:00 | A — ファイナリスト | FRIENDS | Jihyun Kim | Animation | 15:34 |
| 13:00 | A — ファイナリスト | Andy’s Days #42 | 野崎 淳史 | Narrative | 3:05 |
| 13:00 | A — ファイナリスト | ZERO | DONGHA OH | Narrative | 5:52 |
| 14:00 | B — ファイナリスト | EXILE | Stephane Benini | Documentary | 9:09 |
| 14:00 | B — ファイナリスト | Goodbye, world! | Marcos Samia | Documentary | 4:58 |
| 14:00 | B — ファイナリスト | Pexote Jack: Ohio! | Hoyt Dwyer | Experimental | 5:00 |
| 14:00 | B — ファイナリスト | To the Bones | Claudio Sa | Animation | 6:10 |
| 14:00 | B — ファイナリスト | Thanks for Calling | DONG-YOUNG SHIN | Narrative | 17:33 |
| 14:00 | B — ファイナリスト | HACK-ING | Gibum Kim | Narrative | 8:33 |
| 15:00 | C — ファイナリスト | The Cinema That Never Was | Mark Wachholz | Documentary | 5:32 |
| 15:00 | C — ファイナリスト | Chairman | Sungwon Won, Youngjea Choi, Hana Choi | Narrative | 6:02 |
| 15:00 | C — ファイナリスト | The Hidden Tremor | Léo Cannone | Experimental | 4:47 |
| 15:00 | C — ファイナリスト | What Remains | Vadim Lasca | Narrative | 7:16 |
| 15:00 | C — ファイナリスト | The world turns , Because you do | 新野 卓 | Narrative | 3:34 |
| 15:00 | C — ファイナリスト | AIVY° | 那覇尚樹 | Experimental | 9:27 |
| 15:00 | C — ファイナリスト | The White Dharma | young ju lee | Documentary | 11:54 |
| 16:00 | D — セレクション | The Wrong Visitor | Harry Hyun | 11:36 | |
| 16:00 | D — セレクション | THRESHOLD | Hyeongjun KIM | 3:32 | |
| 16:00 | D — セレクション | TWIN EARTH | SOJIN JEONG | 5:02 | |
| 16:00 | D — セレクション | What Is a Movie: A prompt | Jeong A Lee | 6:45 | |
| 16:00 | D — セレクション | World Within a Drop | Dbase (바세) | 4:14 | |
| 16:00 | D — セレクション | Yisang 2.0 | Harry Hyun | 4:16 | |
| 16:00 | D — セレクション | A Bedtime Story for the End 睡前故事 | Zheyan Li | 7:21 | |
| 16:00 | D — セレクション | リハビリ単位18 | Radiata Labs 【こう】 | 6:46 | |
| 17:30 | 招待作品 | Bone of Yew | Toby Hyder | ||
| 17:30 | 招待作品 | Japanese Salarymen | Randy Shmidt | ||
| 17:30 | 招待作品 | グランマレビト | 山口ヒロキ | ||
| 18:00 | 受賞作品 | 当日発表 | 当日発表 | Animation | 33:10 |
| 18:00 | 受賞作品 | Documentary | 5:32 | ||
| 18:00 | 受賞作品 | Narrative | 6:02 | ||
| 18:00 | 受賞作品 | Experimental | 4:47 | ||
| 18:00 | 受賞作品 | Animation | 4:50 | ||
| 18:00 | 受賞作品 | Narrative | 3:05 | ||
| 18:00 | 受賞作品 | Narrative | 5:52 |
| 時間 | プログラム | 作品名 | 監督 | カテゴリー | 上映時間 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | E — セミファイナリスト | 脱皮-Moulting | Hyeck Joon Son | 12:19 | |
| 10:00 | E — セミファイナリスト | The Battle of Maling | Xin Huang | Narrative | 4:19 |
| 10:00 | E — セミファイナリスト | The Hidden Frequency | Ruqayah H Alsayed Ebrahim | Narrative | 5:39 |
| 10:00 | E — セミファイナリスト | Pray To Have A Child | XiaoLu Yang, XingJian Wang | Animation | 5:57 |
| 10:00 | E — セミファイナリスト | Who’s The Robot Now? | Erik Gen | Documentary | 5:08 |
| 10:00 | E — セミファイナリスト | The stain | HODA FALLAH | Narrative | 3:43 |
| 10:00 | E — セミファイナリスト | Momentum | Julien Marsouin | Documentary | 5:37 |
| 10:00 | E — セミファイナリスト | SUNFLOWERS WITHOUT DECAY | Boris Eldagsen | Experimental | 3:17 |
| 11:00 | F — セミファイナリスト | The Unfamiliar | Youngseo Kim | 6:08 | |
| 11:00 | F — セミファイナリスト | The Walk | Eric Argiro | 8:33 | |
| 11:00 | F — セミファイナリスト | Musical moment | Kseniia Vetrova | Animation | 3:10 |
| 11:00 | F — セミファイナリスト | The Threshold | Jacek Kadaj | 8:00 | |
| 11:00 | F — セミファイナリスト | Repair | Hal Watmough | Narrative | 6:42 |
| 11:00 | F — セミファイナリスト | Undo Me | Konrad Bak | Narrative | 6:00 |
| 11:00 | F — セミファイナリスト | Constant | Danny Ratcliff | Narrative | 4:35 |
| 11:00 | F — セミファイナリスト | BORED. | Pierre Le Goff | Narrative | 2:22 |
| 12:00 | G — セレクション | Aki – The Journey | Max Zhang / July Peng | 4:45 | |
| 12:00 | G — セレクション | Digital Ego | Hyungjae Youh | 9:45 | |
| 12:00 | G — セレクション | Hey there | Yik Pun Vai | 2:22 | |
| 12:00 | G — セレクション | Interstellar Deathmatch | Zhuang Yan (Rocky) | 6:16 | |
| 12:00 | G — セレクション | Nana | Shu Ting Lu, Daiya Dai | 5:29 | |
| 12:00 | G — セレクション | Noah’s Christmas | Sanghwan Park | 14:20 | |
| 12:00 | G — セレクション | NOHEART | Alessandra Gatti, Alice Siddi | 2:16 | |
| 12:00 | G — セレクション | Servants in Disguise | Donghun LEE | 5:15 | |
| 13:00 | H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | ASHES | Andrej Klimov | 5:18 | |
| 13:00 | H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | One week in Tokyo | Gianfranco Gaioni | 5:29 | |
| 13:00 | H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | Act 2 | Zandy Villagracia | 2:15 | |
| 13:00 | H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | PURGATORIO | Flavio Papa | 4:56 | |
| 13:00 | H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | Floating | Dan de Jesus | 1:50 | |
| 13:00 | H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | The Monster Never Sleeps | Roi Hew | 3:30 | |
| 13:00 | H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | 火魅女 殺戮の道化師 | 長谷川圭一 | 6:41 | |
| 13:00 | H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | flower | 谷田裕紀 | 9:10 | |
| 13:00 | H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | 球体関節人類 VESWIANIA Dyed Reincarnation | 福山智文 | 5:16 | |
| 13:00 | H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | Still I Breathe | Takayuki Nakamura | 4:23 | |
| 14:00 | I — 日本人作品 | 湯けむりバッテリー | Itsuo Takemoto | 8:19 | |
| 14:00 | I — 日本人作品 | 曇天の下の僕たち | 水嶋仁彦 | 3:00 | |
| 14:00 | I — 日本人作品 | WIRE (NO) FEE | 阿部洋太郎, 目山喜樹 | 2:07 | |
| 14:00 | I — 日本人作品 | さすらいの侍 | 前田重音 | 4:49 | |
| 14:00 | I — 日本人作品 | モノクロームの遊園地 | Mitsuru Sato | 8:38 | |
| 14:00 | I — 日本人作品 | 月曜撲滅委員会Elena Bloom EJ1 | 内藤孝洋 | 3:33 | |
| 14:00 | I — 日本人作品 | 約束の道 | 白石智誠 | 2:48 | |
| 14:00 | I — 日本人作品 | HUMAN BEGINNING | Nomi Sotaro | 3:16 | |
| 14:00 | I — 日本人作品 | If you call my name | Takayuki Nakamura | 3:43 | |
| 14:00 | I — 日本人作品 | 時間(とき)が動き出す | 清水英弘 | 2:59 | |
| 14:00 | I — 日本人作品 | DEEP (FAKE) LOVE | 阿部洋太郎, 目山喜樹 | 7:28 | |
| 14:00 | I — 日本人作品 | Digital Mirage | 中原 淳 | 2:59 | |
| 15:00 | 招待作品 | MATILDA | 遠藤久美子 | ||
| 16:15 | 受賞作品 | 当日発表 | 当日発表 | Documentary | 5:32 |
| 16:15 | 受賞作品 | Narrative | 6:02 | ||
| 16:15 | 受賞作品 | Experimental | 4:47 | ||
| 16:15 | 受賞作品 | Animation | 4:50 | ||
| 16:15 | 受賞作品 | Narrative | 3:05 | ||
| 16:15 | 受賞作品 | Narrative | 5:52 | ||
| 17:15 | クロージング作品 | 2043 | Simone Sighinolfi |
AI Film Festival Japan 2025 — Screening Venue Program (Final)
Final as of Oct 29, 2025. Sessions may be subject to change.
| Time | Program | Title | Director | Category | Runtime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13:00 | Program A — Finalists | Between Spaces | Bryan Ebzery | Narrative | 8:41 |
| 13:00 | Program A — Finalists | We the Change | Eric Oldrin, Jeremy Clark, Michael Goedecke, Antonio Marcato | Documentary | 5:50 |
| 13:00 | Program A — Finalists | Last Call Before A.G.I | Matt Zien | Experimental | 5:13 |
| 13:00 | Program A — Finalists | WALLED DREAMS | Bee Han, Yixuan Niu | Animation | 4:50 |
| 13:00 | Program A — Finalists | FRIENDS | Jihyun Kim | Animation | 15:34 |
| 13:00 | Program A — Finalists | Andy’s Days #42 | 野崎 淳史 | Narrative | 3:05 |
| 13:00 | Program A — Finalists | ZERO | DONGHA OH | Narrative | 5:52 |
| 14:00 | Program B — Finalists | EXILE | Stephane Benini | Documentary | 9:09 |
| 14:00 | Program B — Finalists | Goodbye, world! | Marcos Samia | Documentary | 4:58 |
| 14:00 | Program B — Finalists | Pexote Jack: Ohio! | Hoyt Dwyer | Experimental | 5:00 |
| 14:00 | Program B — Finalists | To the Bones | Claudio Sa | Animation | 6:10 |
| 14:00 | Program B — Finalists | Thanks for Calling | DONG-YOUNG SHIN | Narrative | 17:33 |
| 14:00 | Program B — Finalists | HACK-ING | Gibum Kim | Narrative | 8:33 |
| 15:00 | Program C — Finalists | The Cinema That Never Was | Mark Wachholz | Documentary | 5:32 |
| 15:00 | Program C — Finalists | Chairman | Sungwon Won, Youngjea Choi, Hana Choi | Narrative | 6:02 |
| 15:00 | Program C — Finalists | The Hidden Tremor | Léo Cannone | Experimental | 4:47 |
| 15:00 | Program C — Finalists | What Remains | Vadim Lasca | Narrative | 7:16 |
| 15:00 | Program C — Finalists | The world turns , Because you do | 新野 卓 | Narrative | 3:34 |
| 15:00 | Program C — Finalists | AIVY° | 那覇尚樹 | Experimental | 9:27 |
| 15:00 | Program C — Finalists | The White Dharma | young ju lee | Documentary | 11:54 |
| 16:00 | Program D — Selection | The Wrong Visitor | Harry Hyun | 11:36 | |
| 16:00 | Program D — Selection | THRESHOLD | Hyeongjun KIM | 3:32 | |
| 16:00 | Program D — Selection | TWIN EARTH | SOJIN JEONG | 5:02 | |
| 16:00 | Program D — Selection | What Is a Movie: A prompt | Jeong A Lee | 6:45 | |
| 16:00 | Program D — Selection | World Within a Drop | Dbase (바세) | 4:14 | |
| 16:00 | Program D — Selection | Yisang 2.0 | Harry Hyun | 4:16 | |
| 16:00 | Program D — Selection | A Bedtime Story for the End 睡前故事 | Zheyan Li | 7:21 | |
| 16:00 | Program D — Selection | リハビリ単位18 | Radiata Labs 【こう】 | 6:46 | |
| 17:30 | Invited Works | Bone of Yew | Toby Hyder | ||
| 17:30 | Invited Works | Japanese Salarymen | Randy Shmidt | ||
| 17:30 | Invited Works | グランマレビト | 山口ヒロキ | ||
| 18:00 | Award-winning Films | 当日発表 | 当日発表 | Animation | 33:10 |
| 18:00 | Award-winning Films | Documentary | 5:32 | ||
| 18:00 | Award-winning Films | Narrative | 6:02 | ||
| 18:00 | Award-winning Films | Experimental | 4:47 | ||
| 18:00 | Award-winning Films | Animation | 4:50 | ||
| 18:00 | Award-winning Films | Narrative | 3:05 | ||
| 18:00 | Award-winning Films | Narrative | 5:52 |
| Time | Program | Title | Director | Category | Runtime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Program E — Semi-Finalists | 脱皮-Moulting | Hyeck Joon Son | 12:19 | |
| 10:00 | Program E — Semi-Finalists | The Battle of Maling | Xin Huang | Narrative | 4:19 |
| 10:00 | Program E — Semi-Finalists | The Hidden Frequency | Ruqayah H Alsayed Ebrahim | Narrative | 5:39 |
| 10:00 | Program E — Semi-Finalists | Pray To Have A Child | XiaoLu Yang, XingJian Wang | Animation | 5:57 |
| 10:00 | Program E — Semi-Finalists | Who’s The Robot Now? | Erik Gen | Documentary | 5:08 |
| 10:00 | Program E — Semi-Finalists | The stain | HODA FALLAH | Narrative | 3:43 |
| 10:00 | Program E — Semi-Finalists | Momentum | Julien Marsouin | Documentary | 5:37 |
| 10:00 | Program E — Semi-Finalists | SUNFLOWERS WITHOUT DECAY | Boris Eldagsen | Experimental | 3:17 |
| 11:00 | Program F — Semi-Finalists | The Unfamiliar | Youngseo Kim | 6:08 | |
| 11:00 | Program F — Semi-Finalists | The Walk | Eric Argiro | 8:33 | |
| 11:00 | Program F — Semi-Finalists | Musical moment | Kseniia Vetrova | Animation | 3:10 |
| 11:00 | Program F — Semi-Finalists | The Threshold | Jacek Kadaj | 8:00 | |
| 11:00 | Program F — Semi-Finalists | Repair | Hal Watmough | Narrative | 6:42 |
| 11:00 | Program F — Semi-Finalists | Undo Me | Konrad Bak | Narrative | 6:00 |
| 11:00 | Program F — Semi-Finalists | Constant | Danny Ratcliff | Narrative | 4:35 |
| 11:00 | Program F — Semi-Finalists | BORED. | Pierre Le Goff | Narrative | 2:22 |
| 12:00 | Program G — Selection | Aki – The Journey | Max Zhang / July Peng | 4:45 | |
| 12:00 | Program G — Selection | Digital Ego | Hyungjae Youh | 9:45 | |
| 12:00 | Program G — Selection | Hey there | Yik Pun Vai | 2:22 | |
| 12:00 | Program G — Selection | Interstellar Deathmatch | Zhuang Yan (Rocky) | 6:16 | |
| 12:00 | Program G — Selection | Nana | Shu Ting Lu, Daiya Dai | 5:29 | |
| 12:00 | Program G — Selection | Noah’s Christmas | Sanghwan Park | 14:20 | |
| 12:00 | Program G — Selection | NOHEART | Alessandra Gatti, Alice Siddi | 2:16 | |
| 12:00 | Program G — Selection | Servants in Disguise | Donghun LEE | 5:15 | |
| 13:00 | Program H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | ASHES | Andrej Klimov | 5:18 | |
| 13:00 | Program H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | One week in Tokyo | Gianfranco Gaioni | 5:29 | |
| 13:00 | Program H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | Act 2 | Zandy Villagracia | 2:15 | |
| 13:00 | Program H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | PURGATORIO | Flavio Papa | 4:56 | |
| 13:00 | Program H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | Floating | Dan de Jesus | 1:50 | |
| 13:00 | Program H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | The Monster Never Sleeps | Roi Hew | 3:30 | |
| 13:00 | Program H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | 火魅女 殺戮の道化師 | 長谷川圭一 | 6:41 | |
| 13:00 | Program H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | flower | 谷田裕紀 | 9:10 | |
| 13:00 | Program H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | 球体関節人類 VESWIANIA Dyed Reincarnation | 福山智文 | 5:16 | |
| 13:00 | Program H — セレクション & 日本人作品 | Still I Breathe | Takayuki Nakamura | 4:23 | |
| 14:00 | Program I — 日本人作品 | 湯けむりバッテリー | Itsuo Takemoto | 8:19 | |
| 14:00 | Program I — 日本人作品 | 曇天の下の僕たち | 水嶋仁彦 | 3:00 | |
| 14:00 | Program I — 日本人作品 | WIRE (NO) FEE | 阿部洋太郎, 目山喜樹 | 2:07 | |
| 14:00 | Program I — 日本人作品 | さすらいの侍 | 前田重音 | 4:49 | |
| 14:00 | Program I — 日本人作品 | モノクロームの遊園地 | Mitsuru Sato | 8:38 | |
| 14:00 | Program I — 日本人作品 | 月曜撲滅委員会Elena Bloom EJ1 | 内藤孝洋 | 3:33 | |
| 14:00 | Program I — 日本人作品 | 約束の道 | 白石智誠 | 2:48 | |
| 14:00 | Program I — 日本人作品 | HUMAN BEGINNING | Nomi Sotaro | 3:16 | |
| 14:00 | Program I — 日本人作品 | If you call my name | Takayuki Nakamura | 3:43 | |
| 14:00 | Program I — 日本人作品 | 時間(とき)が動き出す | 清水英弘 | 2:59 | |
| 14:00 | Program I — 日本人作品 | DEEP (FAKE) LOVE | 阿部洋太郎, 目山喜樹 | 7:28 | |
| 14:00 | Program I — 日本人作品 | Digital Mirage | 中原 淳 | 2:59 | |
| 15:00 | Invited Works | MATILDA | 遠藤久美子 | ||
| 16:15 | Award-winning Films | 当日発表 | 当日発表 | Documentary | 5:32 |
| 16:15 | Award-winning Films | Narrative | 6:02 | ||
| 16:15 | Award-winning Films | Experimental | 4:47 | ||
| 16:15 | Award-winning Films | Animation | 4:50 | ||
| 16:15 | Award-winning Films | Narrative | 3:05 | ||
| 16:15 | Award-winning Films | Narrative | 5:52 | ||
| 17:15 | Closing Film | 2043 | Simone Sighinolfi |
AIFJ 2025 Panorama Screening — Selected Films (Alphabetical)
Titles only.
- A TRIP TO SARGASSO SEA
- Animalz – Part One
- ART.IS.FOREVER
- Carousel
- Cher Ami
- Class Reunion
- Coward Millionaire
- Crazy Lonely Journey
- DAISY
- DISASTER-FREE
- Dreamscape Echoes
- Echo
- Emergence
- Er Ma
- EVE
- Find my clover
- First Contact
- FRIO
- Hello World
- Highway 77
- I AM AN AMERICAN
- Leo and Robot
- Memory of Paris
- Monster Jr
- Moses and the Ten Commandments
- Neurofade
- Prompted
- Pygmalion
- Red
- Sands of time
- Sika Deer
- Simplified
- Stray Circuit
- superescolares
- The Butterfly Dream
- The Fifth Season
- The Glitch
- The Last Dream
- The Leap of Joy
- the line between
- The Night Stalker
- The Oblivion
- THE PEACE I COULD NOT STAND
- The Root
- THE SHAPE OF THE FUTURE
- The Wall
- The Last Poppy
- THEMARIGOLD
- Transmissions
- Trolley
- Vampires Vacation
- Vincent
- Virtual Strangers
- We Admire Every Fire
- WHAT I NEVER TOLD YOU
- WINTER HOLLOW
♠ November 2 – 3, 2025
@Tokyo Innovation Base
Featuring more than 70 short films created with AI, across categories such as narrative films, animation and documentary. Includes panels, workshops, and hybrid screenings.
Festival Program Highlights
Opening Ceremony
AI Cinema Screenings (Shorts / Documentaries / Experimental)
Keynote Talks & Panel Discussions
Awards Ceremony
Networking Lounge for Creators & Sponsors
Our festival program is designed to showcase the best in AI-enhanced cinema and to foster discussion about the future of film. Key components include:
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Screenings@Projection Room: A curated selection of feature and short films from Japan and around the world, all exploring themes of AI and creativity. From narrative dramas to experimental animations, we highlight diverse genres and formats.
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Panels & Discussions@Main Stage: Expert-led talks and Q&A sessions on topics like AI ethics in storytelling, new tools for filmmakers, and the impact of technology on art. Industry innovators and academic researchers will share insights and field questions from the audience.
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Award Ceremony@Main Stage: An evening gala where we honor outstanding achievements. Prizes will include Jury Awards for categories such as Best AI Films in each categories, a Best Student Film, and an AI Critics Award. Winners will receive recognition and trophy.
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Accessibility Initiatives: We strive to make the festival inclusive for all attendees. All screening venues are wheelchair accessible, and films will feature closed captioning and language support where possible. Our goal is to remove barriers so everyone can enjoy and engage with the program.