Finalists October 2026

World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, online edition
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 1 of 23: 4% by Hossein Soleimani (Iran); A Hundred Yards at Walking Pace by Owen Pellard (United States); A Map of Unclaimed Benches by Carys Wetherell (United Kingdom); A SINGLE THING by Jaime Max (Spain); A Suitcase for the Trombone by Petra Vraníková (Czechia)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 2 of 23: A Tram Stop for the Crickets by Nalin Werasena (Sri Lanka); AI DELLA NONNA by Alessandro Poli (Italy); Aprons for the Jury by Calvin Ruskell (United States); Aura by Emaar by Naveed Rauf (United Arab Emirates); Bellows Register by Lidia Brădescu (Romania)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 3 of 23: BINDING COVENANTS by Eddie Clay Thompkins III (United Kingdom); Blood is Not Destiny by Ildikó Baranyi (Hungary); Borrowed Oars, Paid in Bread by Aino Korpelahti (Finland); Brass Grows in Furrows by Tobias Rennfeld (Germany); Chicken by Liam & Grant (United Kingdom)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 4 of 23: Christine and Bridget by Geeta Vemuri (United States); Cicadas in the Payroll by Darla Kestwick (United States); Coastline by Talya Lotan (Israel); Coffee with Claude by Kevin Cowan (United States); Counting Roofs at Low Tide by Nandi Masekela (South Africa)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 5 of 23: DEAD MAN WALKING — Episode 1 by Ron Hanchinisky (Israel); DEAD MAN WALKING — Episode 7 by Ron Hanchinisky (Israel); Dead weight by Juanma Liceras (Spain); Die Treppe hat Feierabend by Maren Felsbach (Germany); DOTS by Yubin Lee (South Korea)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 6 of 23: ECHO by Yassine Temime (Tunisia); ECHO OF THE CLONE by MinYi Huang (China); El jueves de los remolcadores by Esteban Urricelqui (Chile); El manual de las despedidas útiles by Tomás Arbeláez Nivia (Colombia); El notario de las cometas by Nuria Valcárcel Rius (Spain)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 7 of 23: Ellie Crush - Ashes to Grace by Alan Espasandin (United States); Fate Comes and Goes by Toh Heong Ng (Singapore); Freight Elevator Etiquette by Tessa Brindell (United States); Ghosted: Brokers Gone Wild by Joseph James Gelet (United States); Glamourexia by John Paul DeFazio (United States)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 8 of 23: HASH code: THE WRITER by Bela Attila Kovacs (United States); His Baby Girl Is a Magical Beasts Whisperer by Tianyu Wang, Jiaqi Du (United States); HOPE by Wu Jiaxiang, Shi Ge (China); Hope Creek Ranch by Alan Espasandin (United States); Horrorville by Craig J Williams (United States)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 9 of 23: Human Farm by Melik Külekci (Türkiye); HYAKKI YAGYŌ | Tower of 100 Demons by James Mitchell (Canada); I Am from the Moon by Li Wan (China); I REMEMBER YOU by Akshay Mehra (India); Il turno delle sedie by Dario Vespoli (Italy)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 10 of 23: IMPACT by Cortez Mckay (United States); Inventaire des poignées by Maëlle Trévan (France); Kaizen by Marie Pierre Dury (France); Kiln Number Forty-Three by Duan Yuelan (China); Kupua, l'Isola Perduta by Riccardo Fara (Italy)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 11 of 23: La Aduana de los Botones by Yadira Cuenle (Mexico); La Saison des déménageurs by Édith Laverdière (Canada); Las instrucciones del barro by Irene Montalbesa (Argentina); Le Tarif des retrouvailles by Aline Vauzelles (France); Les Coudes sur la nappe by Bastien Rovel (France)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 12 of 23: Loan Period: Monsoon by Kavya Dandekar (India); Lost in Naples by h2o (China); Mijok - Diffuse Origin by Jonathan Rafael Mendoza (Colombia); Mother's Little Helpers by Dustin Ross (United States); My War by Elazar Gavriel Avramovits (Israel)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 13 of 23: NECTAR by Cathal McCarthy (Ireland); Night Cricket by Ahmed Al Hebsi (United Arab Emirates); No Ego by Tarannum Pasricha (India); O Concurso dos Guarda-Chuvas by Celina Mouravaz (Brazil); O Peso das Tangerinas by Beatriz Seixas Lobo (Portugal)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 14 of 23: One Day on Earth by George Felner (United Kingdom); PEGASUS 2 – MOSQUITO SQUADRON by Yu Yu, Yan Wang (Macao); Performance Art by Alex Demilo (United States); Plumas by Jason Ragosta, Miriam Kruishoop (United States); Practice for an Empty Pool by Iris Fenwicke (United States)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 15 of 23: Receipts from the Tundra by Graham Elswick (Canada); Room 4806 by Esther Gronenborn (Germany); Sarmiento, the teacher by Alejo Emiliano Garcia Sosa, Alexander Wittmann (Argentina); Saving the Village by Seoyoon Lee (South Korea); Seam Allowance for Strangers by Jang Minsu (South Korea)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 16 of 23: Seven Bowls for the Locksmith by Tadashi Numekura (Japan); Sharper Than Blade by Oleksii Pasechnyk (Ukraine); singularity by Frederic Martin (France); Sins of Dorian Gray by Oleksandra Konoplya (Ukraine); Six Months, Falling for Hades by Jeongseop Lim (South Korea)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 17 of 23: The Aeroplane in the Laundry Basket by Harriet Colswain (Australia); THE AMBASSADOR by Black Forest Dan (Germany); The Apricot Queue by Salma Tazrouti (Morocco); The Bamboo Tollbooth by Luo Xinning (China); The bear and the ewe by Julien Fradet (France)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 18 of 23: The Bicycle Bell Parliament by Wanjiru Gathendi (Kenya); The Brass Button Committee by Euan Dalbreck (United Kingdom); The Custodian of Gravity by Bennett Orlow (United States); The Flower of Emptiness by Yun Soung Kim (South Korea); The Heron Takes Attendance by Mika Hoshizawa (Japan)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 19 of 23: The Line Up by Steve Ballantyne, Paul Sterling (Canada); The Mango Crate Orchestra by Amaka Nwobiri (Nigeria); The Model Answer by Chuling Kuo (Canada); The monster by Claire Zamora, Thibaud Zamora, Michael Cao (France); The Perfect Day by Olha Teteria (United States)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 20 of 23: The Persimmon Bargain by Seo Eunchae (South Korea); The Pomegranate Stairwell by Rana Mazloun (Lebanon); The Prompter by Allan Ripley (France); The Rattan Lift Inspector by Dian Prawelani (Indonesia); The Raw by Gwang Yeol Lee (South Korea)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 21 of 23: The Spare Key Census by Maren Whitcombe (United States); The Wool Auction Rehearsal by Moana Tairere (New Zealand); Three Hems Before Departure by Derya Sönmezalp (Türkiye); Trees Trees by Sharay Reed (United States)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 22 of 23: TURAR by Yenlik Shynbatyrova (Kazakhstan, United States); Two Tickets for the Roofer by Malcolm Densett (United States); Under the Bowling Lanes by Ruth Penhalwick (United Kingdom); Update by Jochen Zilch (Germany)
World AI Cinema Festival — Finalists October 2026, page 23 of 23: VORTEX by Andrés Giordano, Fele Gobina (Chile); WHAT A MAMA by Laura Jean Smith (United States); Who Is the Creature? by XiaoBai Bai (China); Zoki – Between Memory and Dream by Irena Petrovic (France)