YouBoob tracks the whole AI film competition world: 80 winning films from 15 competitions play right here, with their real YouTube view counts. Below: the competitions open for entries right now, the most watched winners of all time, and every festival on the circuit.
Making an AI film? Those three are the live doors. Every date here was read on the festival's own site; the official link is always the final word.
AI Will Smith eating spaghetti pasta (AI footage and audio)2.1Mviews2
Will Smith eating spaghetti 20261.1Mviews3
LILY (1 Billion Followers Summit in collaboration with Google Gemini)135.1Kviews4
Another Detail, Denis Larzillière, primé à Cannes WAIF 202697.4Kviews5
LET US EXPLORE | AI Short Film | Runway Gen:48 Winner "Best Character"45Kviews6
Will Smith eating spaghetti in 2025 - Veo 334.2Kviews7
Will Smith Eats spaghetti pasta in Sora 2 (2025)32.5Kviews8
Dreams Don't Die - AI Short Film by Omar Rammal27Kviews9
The Cinema That Never Was (2025) | 4K AI Video Essay19.2Kviews10
HEAL | فيلم AI افضل | Top 5 AI Film Award (1B Followers Summit x Google Gemini) BY / Mohamed Gomaa .15.8KviewsRunway's 48 hour filmmaking challenge, where creators make a short film of one to four minutes in a single weekend using Runway tools, with winners picked by a jury and a public vote.
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Official site →LET US EXPLORE | AI Short Film | Runway Gen:48 Winner "Best Character"🏆 Best Character, 1st Edition · Runway Gen-48
LAPSE | AI Short Film Runway Gen:48 | Winner "Best Craft"🏆 Best Craft, 2nd Edition · Runway Gen-48
TO THE VOID | Winner Jury Selection | Gen:48 Aleph Edition🏆 Jury Selection, Aleph Edition · Runway Gen-48
Feast | AI Short Film | Winner of Runway Gen:48 Fourth Edition🏆 Winner, 4th Edition · Runway Gen-48
UNKNOWN | AI Short Film | Runway Gen:48 2nd Edition WINNER BEST ART DIRECTION🏆 Best Art Direction, 2nd Edition · Runway Gen-48
Exactly How I Remember It | Gen:48 Aleph Edition🏆 Grand Prix, Aleph Edition · Runway Gen-48
HOME | GEN:48 Fourth Edition Grand Prix Winner🏆 Grand Prix, 4th Edition · Runway Gen-48
∞ | Gen:48 Aleph Edition🏆 People's Choice, Aleph Edition · Runway Gen-48
The Myth - GEN:48 RunwayStudios 🌿Silver Award 🌿🏆 Silver, 1st Edition · Runway Gen-48
AUSENCIA — AI Short Film by Contanimation | Runway GEN:48 Aleph Edition🏆 People's Choice Honoree, Aleph Edition · Runway Gen-48
BEATRICE | AI Short Film | Runway Gen:48 Grand Prix Winner🏆 Grand Prix, 3rd Edition · Runway Gen-48
PLIERS/ AI shotrfilm Runway Gen:48 / Silver "People´s Choice award"🏆 People's Choice Silver, 2nd Edition · Runway Gen-48
Prompted | Gen:48 Aleph Edition | Created by Ron Baranov🏆 People's Choice Honoree, Aleph Edition · Runway Gen-48
No Pressure🏆 Winner, 4th Edition · Runway Gen-48
honu - gen:48 3rd edition "best craft" winner🏆 Best Craft, 3rd Edition · Runway Gen-48
Shower Thoughts in the Abyss - OFFICIAL WINNER GEN48 Aleph Edition 2025🏆 Jury Selection, Aleph Edition · Runway Gen-48
HOW IT'S MADE: A Good Idea | Runway GEN:48 AI Film Submission🏆 Winner, 4th Edition · Runway Gen-48
the Brave Little Hen🏆 IMAX Selection, 3rd Edition · Runway Gen-48
2026 Grand Prix - An AI Film🏆 Grand Prix, 1st Edition · Runway Gen-48
RUPU KK🏆 People's Choice Winner, 3rd Edition · Runway Gen-48
Kowloon Night and Fog | GEN:48 1st Edition Bronze | Oct 2023🏆 Bronze, 1st Edition · Runway Gen-48An international competition run by the technology company Reply for short films made or enhanced with AI, with the finalists premiering at an event in Venice each September.
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Official site →The Cinema That Never Was (2025) | 4K AI Video Essay🏆 2nd Place · Reply AI Film Festival 2025
MEME, MYSELF AND A.I.🏆 Finalist · Reply AI Film Festival 2025
Instinct | A Short Film🏆 Lexus Visionary Award · Reply AI Film Festival 2025
Le Drip | AI Short Film | Alex Naghavi & Ezra Li🏆 2nd Place · Reply AI Film Festival 2026
2025 대한민국 AI 콘텐츠 어워즈 상영작ㅣ CLOWN - Shanshan Jiang🏆 AI for Good Award · Reply AI Film Festival 2025
TO DEAR ME | Beijing Film Festival AIGC 2024 Best Short Film | Aideate Films🏆 1st Place, Best Short Film · Reply AI Film Festival 2024
One way (Venice film festival)🏆 2nd Place · Reply AI Film Festival 2024
Corrupt Data Clan - The Secret Story🏆 Finalist · Reply AI Film Festival 2025
Love at First Sight - by Jacopo Reale🏆 1st Place · Reply AI Film Festival 2025
THE CHILD OF THE SEA | Animated Short Film | Reply AIFF 2026 – Grand Prix Special Mention🏆 Special Mention · Reply AI Film Festival 2026Not a competition at all: it is the internet's favorite AI benchmark. Every new video model gets asked to render Will Smith eating spaghetti, and the results show exactly how far the technology has come since 2023.
AI Will Smith eating spaghetti pasta (AI footage and audio)🏆 2023 · ModelScope (the original) · The Spaghetti TestWill Smith eating spaghetti 2026🏆 2026 · The full evolution (2023-2026) · The Spaghetti TestWill Smith eating spaghetti in 2025 - Veo 3🏆 2025 · Veo 3 · The Spaghetti TestWill Smith Eats spaghetti pasta in Sora 2 (2025)🏆 2025 · Sora 2 · The Spaghetti Test
WILL SMITH EATING SPAGHETTI 2023 VS 2024. Was this made by SORA by OpenAI?🏆 2024 · 2023 vs 2024 · The Spaghetti Test
Will Smith Eating Spaghetti (Kling 3.0)🏆 2026 · Kling 3.0 · The Spaghetti Test
From eating spaghetti to fighting it!. Seedance 2.0 is insane!🏆 2026 · Seedance 2.0 · The Spaghetti Test
Will Smith Eating Spaghetti with Red Sauce – Funny AI Video Made with HailuoAI Minimax!🏆 2024 · MiniMax Hailuo · The Spaghetti Test
Will Smith eating Spaghetti VEO 3.1🏆 2025 · Veo 3.1 · The Spaghetti Test
The Meme Prompt That Exposes Every AI Video Model (2023 → 2025)🏆 2025 · Kling 2.6 · The Spaghetti TestRunway's annual festival for films made with generative AI, now one track of a wider AI Festival that also covers design, new media, fashion, advertising and gaming, with gala screenings in New York and Los Angeles.
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Separation — Rufus Dye-Montefiore, Luke Dye-Montefiore & Alice Boyd🏆 Finalist · Runway AI Film Festival 2024
JAILBIRD🏆 Gold · Runway AI Film Festival 2025
A Million Trillion Pathways | Episode 2🏆 Merit · Runway AI Film Festival 2025
Given Again | Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) Short Film🏆 Silver · Runway AI Film Festival 2023
More Tears Than Harm🏆 Honoree · Runway AI Film Festival 2025
AI Short Film Distance Between Two Points of Me | Runway Honoree | Illya Dutsyk & HOLYWATER🏆 Honoree · Runway AI Film Festival 2025
Fragments Of Nowhere ValléeDuhamel🏆 Merit · Runway AI Film Festival 2025
Generation — Short Film by Riccardo Fusetti🏆 Grand Prix · Runway AI Film Festival 2023
Checkpoint — Creativity in the Age of AI🏆 Gold · Runway AI Film Festival 2023A film award run by Dubai's 1 Billion Followers Summit that pays a single $1,000,000 grand prize for an original AI generated short film; the first edition was won by the film LILY, and the 2027 edition is powered by ByteDance's Seedance.
Submissions close November 20, 2026 (closing soon)
Official site →LILY (1 Billion Followers Summit in collaboration with Google Gemini)🏆 Winner, $1M AI Film Award · 1 Billion Followers Summit AI Film Award 2026Dreams Don't Die - AI Short Film by Omar Rammal🏆 Finalist · 1 Billion Followers Summit AI Film Award 2026HEAL | فيلم AI افضل | Top 5 AI Film Award (1B Followers Summit x Google Gemini) BY / Mohamed Gomaa .🏆 Top 5 Finalist · 1 Billion Followers Summit AI Film Award 2026
HOMEWARD SHORT FILM - AN AI SPACE OPERA ADVENTURE🏆 Finalist · 1 Billion Followers Summit AI Film Award 2026
MAESTRA | Cortometraje (Sci-Fi & AI)🏆 Finalist · 1 Billion Followers Summit AI Film Award 2026
The Translator Submission AI FILM AWARD 1 Billion Summit Award Winn🏆 Top 5 Finalist · 1 Billion Followers Summit AI Film Award 2026
cats like warmth 1B AI Film Award Submission AI FILM AWARD ( 1 Billion Summit Award Winn )🏆 Top 5 Finalist · 1 Billion Followers Summit AI Film Award 2026An international festival for AI assisted and hybrid films organised by Institut EuropIA, with city editions around the world feeding into a grand finale at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.
Submissions close February 15, 2027
Official site →Another Detail, Denis Larzillière, primé à Cannes WAIF 2026🏆 Best First AI Film · World AI Film Festival 2026
RendAI-vous export H265 Artefact AI film festival🏆 Best Youth Film · World AI Film Festival 2026
𝕷𝖆 𝕿𝖎𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖚𝖘𝖊 𝖉'𝕺𝖒𝖇𝖗𝖊𝖘 - 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓭𝓸𝔀𝓼 𝓦𝓮𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓻🏆 Press Award · World AI Film Festival 2026
The Beginning - Ibraheem DIAB (BEST AI EMOTION FILM)🏆 Best AI Emotion Film · World AI Film Festival 2026
LA SÉLÉCTION MÉCHANIQUE, Jules Blachier (BEST ANIMATION FILM)🏆 Best AI Animated Film · World AI Film Festival 2026
Uber - Life is about the ride🏆 Best AI Advertising Film · World AI Film Festival 2026Curious Refuge, an online school and community for AI filmmakers, runs themed AI film competitions with Epidemic Sound through the year, including a horror competition each fall and the Feel Good AI Film Competition each spring.
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In Another Breath | Award-Winning AI Short Film (First Prize - Curious Refuge 2026)🏆 1st Place · Curious Refuge Feel Good 2026
The Birdwatcher | A Heartwarming Animated Short Film🏆 Audience Favorite · Curious Refuge Feel Good AI Film Competition 2026
Dragged Holidays – Emotional AI Short Film About Identity | Winner of Curious Refuge Holiday Contest🏆 1st Place · Curious Refuge AI Holiday Film Contest 2023
Mistletoes🏆 2nd Place · Curious Refuge AI Holiday Film Contest 2023
A Little Water Bear🏆 2nd Place · Curious Refuge Feel Good AI Film Competition 2026An independent awards event for films generated entirely with AI, launched in Cannes in May 2024 and now run as a multi city series called the AI Film and Ads Awards; it is not part of the official Cannes Film Festival.
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Official site →A large online competition incubated by ElevenLabs for work made with AI, with divisions for film and TV, advertising, music videos, games, student work and behind the scenes films.
Submissions close January 7, 2027
Official site →India's first AI film festival, launched inside the International Film Festival of India in Goa by the WAVES Film Bazaar and LTIMindtree, with 68 entries from 18 countries in its first edition.
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Official site →South Korea's first and largest international AI film festival, hosted by Gyeonggi-do and organized by the Gyeonggi Content Agency, first held at KINTEX in Goyang in 2024.
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Bills itself as the world's first AI film festival, running since 2021 as a nonprofit, and now screens monthly in Hollywood at the Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory.
Runs monthly; current deadlines are on their site
Official site →Prague's international showcase for AI filmmaking, run by the Czech Association of Artificial Intelligence with YDEAL and zero1cine; its third edition screened in December 2025.
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A $1,000,000 cash prize competition run by the AI video platform Higgsfield for short films generated inside its Cinema Studio tools, judged on merit across 14 placements.
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Official site →A one off program at the 2024 Tribeca Festival that premiered five short films commissioned from invited filmmakers using early access to OpenAI's Sora text to video model; it was never an open submission competition.
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Official site →AIFA Awards: Annual awards launched by the AI Film Academy in Lisbon in 2024 and now run by AIFA Ventures in London, recognising innovation and impact in AI powered film, fashion and music. None of its winners play on YouBoob yet (most live off YouTube), but it is part of the world we track. Official site →
