Award Winners & Honorable Mentions 2025
The Czech International AI Film Festival (CIAIFF) 2025 received 1,400+ submissions from creators from 70+ countries. Here the official list of Award Winners and Honorable Mentions.
/What we’re celebrating this year
AI film is evolving fast, but the most important thing has not changed: cinema is still about taste, craft, emotion, and point of view.
Across the winners and honorable mentions you will find:
• Bold visual experimentation (sometimes messy, often brave, always personal)
• New narrative grammar, mixing animation, live-action language, and generative aesthetics
• Films that use AI as a tool, not as a shortcut
• Stories rooted in culture, identity, humor, anxiety, politics, love, and everything in between
We don’t believe AI should replace filmmaking. We believe it expands who gets to participate.
Curators: Mauricio Tonon, Rodrigo Ribeiro Vieira, Odair Faleco, Gabriela Sitová, Benji.
Jury: Gabriela Sitová, Odair Faleco, Mauricio Tonon, Alexandra Axell
Panelists: Boris Eldagsen, Justin Hackney, Alexandra Axell
Imagined by: Czech Association of AI, zero1cine, Ydeal
Media Partners: Curious Refuge, Chroma Awards, CNN
Special thanks: Hailuo Minimax, ElevenLabs
🏆 Best Film — “A Little Full” — Directors: Bee Han, Yixuan Niu, Yiran Tian, Yue Zhang
🏆 Best Music Video — “Superafim – Mouth” — Directors: Vinicius Andrade Almeida, Matheus Oliveira Ribeiro
🏆 Best Documentary — “Ratvertising” — Director: Blanca de Frutos
🏆 Best Script & Narrative — “Things I Never Said” — Director: Ziyao Lin
🏆 Best Sci-fi — “Forest of memories” — Director: Jigon KIM
🏆 Creative use of AI — “Fragments of Nowhere” — Director: Vallee Duhamel (Julien Vallée)
🏆 Best Sound Design — “Subterra” — Director: Yousef Kaidan
🏆 Best Photography — “The Jungle of Death” — Director: Renan Rodrigues Monteiro
🏆 Best Comedy — “Generate” — Director: Denis Ivanov
🏆 Best Experimental — “Sakura Gansha” — Director: Sijin Liu
❤️ Honorable Mention — “The Cinema That Never Was” — Director: Mark Wachholz
❤️ Honorable Mention — “Sisters” — Director: Tobias M. Huber (Storybook Studios)
❤️ Honorable Mention — “What Remains” — Director: Vadim Lasca
❤️ Honorable Mention — “Carousel” — Director: Andres Aloi
❤️ Honorable Mention — “I am an American” — Director: Giovanni Abitante
not just in words:
🍿 Official Selection – CIAIFF 2025
- Exit Valley – FungAI — Odair Faleco / Davi Mori — Opening Film (Out of Competition)
- bench — Francesco Marzoli
- Roped — Cokau
- Grat the Cat — Simon Baret
- Superafim – Mouth — Vinicius Andrade Almeida, Matheus Oliveira Ribeiro
- Carousel — Andres Aloi
- What Remains — Vadim Lasca
- The Way — Vova Pridorohin
- Zombi Food — Gyu Hyun Chang
- Ratvertising — Blanca de Frutos
- Grain & Grit — Matt Valente
- Echoes Of Woes — Debargha Maschatak
- Sisters — Tobias M. Huber
- Things I Never Said — Ziyao Lin
- The Missing Segment — Sam Lavy
- Diva Vox – My Passion — Ciro Ayala
- Forest of memories — Jigon Kim
- Fragments of Nowhere — Vallée Duhamel
- Horizon — Analogmirage
- 1895 — Hadrien Gautrot, Ilia Gerber
- THE OPPOSITE — (Director not specified)
- Hopeful — Vicky Chen
- I am an American — Giovanni Abitante
- Gnomes of New York — Shane Willett
- Subterra — Yousef Kaidan
- Monster — Nick & Chloé
- Ghostwire – Wish — (Director not specified)
- The Jungle of Death — Renan Rodrigues Monteiro
- Generate — Denis Ivanov
- The Cinema That Never Was — Mark Wachholz
- Sakura Gansha — Sijin Liu
- A Little Full — Bee Han, Yixuan Niu, Yiran Tian, Yue Zhang
- The Spooky Speedway — Mean Orange Cat