Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia · AI

The festival's 2026 programme includes screenings connected with WAIFF and experiments in AI-enabled film production.

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The festival's 2026 programme includes screenings connected with WAIFF and experiments in AI-enabled film production.

Location: Tokyo · Japan

A story told in editions

2026

Twenty-eighth edition: Cinema Engineering

Tokyo events ran 25 May–9 June, with online screenings until 30 June. The opening featured Cinema Traveler and the AI Tetsuya Bessho digital character.

Programmes, honours & selection

2026

AI screenings and digital rights

The opening report announces screenings of WAIFF winners Rewrite and This Is Me. These are guest screenings, not additional SSFF awards.

The people behind the programme

Tetsuya BesshoOrganising team · 2026

YamaguchiSelected / awarded creator · 2026

No jury roster has been documented here yet. Speakers, organisers and creators are identified by their actual roles.

Work worth discovering

Titles, distinctions and official sources, organised by year.

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From discovery to participation

Archive scope: This dossier focuses on published AI programmes and digital-character projects; other awards retain their original categories.

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Official websiteshortshorts.orgChecked 2026-11-15

This living archive expands through edition-specific, source-checked information. Unpublished or unverified facts remain explicitly undocumented.