Taste
The festival values taste, restraint, intention and emotional clarity over technological noise.
Human + AI
A manifesto for human-first cinematic technology.
AI can generate. Humans must still choose.
Craft
Editing, sound, performance, camera language, structure and worldbuilding are treated as serious cinematic work.
Responsibility
Rights, consent, disclosure, voice, likeness and human contribution matter. The future of cinema has to be worthy of its artists.
Madrid edition
Madrid gives AI cinema a capital-city stage: art history, Spanish-language screen culture, institutions and a serious European industry audience. The local edition is shaped around artists and technical creators who understand that new tools need more authorship, not less.
What we celebrate
Directors, writers, actors, editors, sound artists, designers, cinematographers, animators, VFX teams, producers and technologists who use AI with a point of view.