AI films worth your time
The best films being made with AI, chosen by people who make them. Short films, series and features, from any tool and any country, each playing free from its maker's own channel. We pick them; the makers get the views.
From China5Festival films10Science fiction, horror and fantasy17Longer films and series7
From China
Made in China and posted to YouTube by the maker. Most Chinese AI films never leave Bilibili; these did.
8 min The Sign DiDi_OK (Jiaze Li) · Sci-fi First prize, Bilibili First AI Creation Contest 
11 min Website DiDi_OK (Jiaze Li) · Sci-fi Grand Prix and Community Award, Reply AI Film Festival 2026 
9 min Candy DiDi_OK (Jiaze Li) · Sci-fi The maker's own question for this one: what if violence turned you into candy? 
7 min Arrow DiDi_OK (Jiaze Li) · Sci-fi If reality is a simulation, who is controlling the mouse? That is the question the film is built on. 
12 min Waste to Energy DiDi_OK (Jiaze Li) · Sci-fi The last truck of trash was different. Festival films
Finalists, winners and entries from AI film festivals.
20 min What Remains Lucas Cinematic Studio · Drama Finalist, Seoul International AI Film Festival 2026 
13 min Echoes of the Silent Planet Vincent Perez Films · Sci-fi Finalist, AI London Film Festival and Cannes 2026, as stated by the maker 
5 min The Barrier Storybook Studios · Drama Described by its maker as award-winning 
11 min Reset Max Barskih · Sci-fi Entry in the Higgsfield Global Film Festival 2026 
11 min The Prompter Midnight Monkeys (Allan Ripley) · Drama Entry in the Higgsfield Global Film Festival 2026 
13 min Make Believe Montlouis Mane · Drama Entry in the Higgsfield Global Film Festival 2026 
10 min Five Minutes World Stunts · Sci-fi Entry in the Higgsfield Global Film Festival 2026 
12 min Still The Blue Horizon AI · Drama Entry in the Higgsfield Global Film Festival 2026 
9 min The Elevator Marvs AI · Drama Entry in the Higgsfield Global Film Festival 2026 
4 min Drawn Halinus Films · Drama Entry in the Higgsfield Global Film Festival 2026 Science fiction, horror and fantasy
Short films, two to thirteen minutes each.
11 min Woodnuts Gossip Goblin · Cosmic horror A cosmic-horror science-fiction short, and one of the most-watched AI films on YouTube. 
10 min Noctari: Arrival Black Eye Media · Sci-fi fantasy Science-fiction fantasy action with giant monsters, kung fu, robots and aliens, in the maker's words. 
10 min Noctari 2: Scarecrow Black Eye Media · Sci-fi fantasy The second Noctari film: monsters, kung fu, robots and vampires. 
6 min They Slept for a Thousand Years ByMosX · Dystopian sci-fi A six-minute dystopian science-fiction short. 
8 min The Giant Spoke ByMosX · Dystopian sci-fi An eight-minute dystopian science-fiction short from the same maker. 
2 min That's AI maximise · Short Two minutes long, and watched more than five million times. 
4 min Javelin Film Crux · Action A four-minute short from Film Crux's Supremacy project. 
5 min The Last Base NGC (New Generation Cinema) · Sci-fi A five-minute short made with Seedance 2.5. 
5 min Bone Throne Lennard Smith · Fantasy A five-minute short made with Seedance 2.0 and Kling 3.0. The maker has also posted how it was made. 
5 min Discarded Companion AI Video School · Sci-fi A five-minute science-fiction story. 
7 min Jetty Tsunami AI Video School · Drama A seven-minute short made with Seedance 2.0, Kling and Veo. 
3 min The Cleaner Dave Clark · Thriller A three-minute short by director Dave Clark, made with Google's Flow and Veo 3. 
11 min Tusk Hunters Flick · Lovecraftian horror An eleven-minute Lovecraftian short. 
5 min Replaced by AI! Rogue Cell Pictures · Comedy A short about being replaced by AI, made with Seedance 2. 
9 min RUS-T John Martin · Sci-fi A nine-minute science-fiction film made with Reallusion AI Studio and Seedance 2.0. 
13 min Jackpot Dair · Sci-fi comedy A thirteen-minute science-fiction comedy. 
3 min The Next Shift ИИчница · Short A three-minute short from a Russian-language AI channel. Longer films and series
Fifteen minutes and up, or the first episode of a series.
15 min Stranded: Survival Island Karma AI Films · Survival A fifteen-minute survival story set on an island. 
52 min The Exiled Aurelume Films · Sci-fi A soldier declared dead finds a new life on an alien world. 
37 min No Way Back Aurelume Films · Sci-fi He chose the alien woman over the army. 
20 min Oneiric Higgsfield AI · Sci-fi A twenty-minute science-fiction film released by the AI video company Higgsfield under its Originals label. 
10 min Arena Zero, Episode 1 Higgsfield AI · Action The first episode of what Higgsfield calls the first AI action series. 
11 min Zephyr, Episode 1 Higgsfield AI · Series The first episode of a Higgsfield original series. 
16 min Green Lightning 1 Hieu AI Media · Action The first part of an AI action series, in English, made with Seedance 2.0. More from the AI side
Award winners from China: 28 films from Bilibili's first AI contest and the Venice AI film festival, most of them not on YouTube yet. AI dramas: the AI-generated series now filling the short drama apps.
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