AIFF 2025
winnersTotal Pixel Space
by Jacob Adler
9:28
Grand Prix
Total Pixel Space contains every possible digital image, including films of your entire life, every life you never lived, and the lives of every creature or object that ever and never existed on or off the earth, from every possible angle.

JAILBIRD
by Andrew Salter
2:49
Gold
JAILBIRD invites the viewer to experience the world through the eyes of a chicken as it goes through a transformative experience -- being sent to a human prison. The film highlights how projects like this can benefit not only animals, but the lives of those who care for them.

ONE
by Ricardo Villavicencio & Edward Saatchi
6:18
Silver
After Earth collapses, a crew of transhumans follows the path of Voyager I to a distant planet, only to find it inhabited by lost souls desperate to reclaim human bodies again.

Distance Between Two Points Of Me
by Illya Dutsyk, Bogdan Nesvit, Anatolii Kasianov
2:27
Honoree
The film contemplates what it means to lose a home, as many Ukrainians have. It gently walks through the emotional distance between presence and absence, grief and gratitude, showing how memory and hope help us stay connected to who we are.

More Tears Than Harm
by Herinarivo Rakotomanana
3:14
Honoree
A sensory collage of childhood memories from Madagascar with present-day impressions. Fleeting moments quietly echo within.

Fragments Of Nowhere
by Vallée Duhamel
8:04
Merit
A short film about the spaces between what's real and what's perceived. If reality is just another layer of perception, what happens when those layers collide? Time bends, places shift, and nothing holds still for long.

RŌHKI - A Million Trillion Pathways
by Hachi and IO
5:38
Merit
A broken swordsman, a grieving immortal and a cosmic being entwine across timelines to stop an empire built on blood and memory. To save the only family he has left, Hachi must survive his past — and master the demon within.

6000 Lies
by Simon Rieth
5:06
Merit
It is the story of a detail that is missing, or that never existed. The image of a child we are looking for and trying to recreate. Thousands of lies to find the truth.

Editorial
by Riccardo Fusetti
3:28
Merit
A bold and unexpected piece about femininity — contrasting the fun and playful with the surreal and horrific, the authentic with the fictitious — blending these elements into a wild, fever-dream rollercoaster.

Emergence
by Maddie Hong
3:35
Merit
After seventeen years underground, we emerge. Emergence invites us into the final moments of one small creature's life. Through its eyes, we experience the anticipation, the fear and the joy of becoming — and what it means to live for one moment of light.
AIFF 2024
winners
Get Me Out / 囚われて
by Daniel Antebi
6:34
Every time Aka tries to escape this bizarre suburban American house, it doesn't let him leave. The house tortures him, making him face his past.

Pounamu
by Samuel Schrag
4:48
A kiwi bird chases a dream through the wilderness.
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by Junie Lau
5:07
A retired mathematician creates digital comics, igniting an infinite universe where his virtual children seek to decode the "truth," grappling with profound existential equations across time and space.

Where Do Grandmas Go When They Get Lost?
by Léo Cannone
2:27
Where Do Grandmas Go When They Get Lost? is a visual tale that explores, through the eyes of a child, the whimsical and poignant question of where our grandmothers go when they "get lost."

L'éveil à la création / The dawn of creation
by Carlo De Togni & Elena Sparacino
7:32
A mystical voyage into Gauguin's Tahiti, revealing an introspective encounter with an ancient deity that transforms his artistic vision.

Animitas
by Emeric Leprince
4:00
The tragic tale of a young Argentine trapped in limbo after a car accident comes to life through the transposition of original.

A Tree Once Grew Here
by John Semerad & Dara Semerad
7:00
A Tree Once Grew Here combines captivating visuals, animation and imagery, to tell a tale that transcends language. We are reminded that we must rebalance harmony and nurture our planet; because we can no longer afford not to.

Dear Mom
by Johans Saldana Guadalupe & Katie Luo
3:04
Dear Mom is a letter from a daughter to her mom imagining if she had met her mom at her own age—20 years old. The film is about unconditional love and gratitude written through a reflective and personal letter from the filmmakers to their moms.

LAPSE
by YZA Voku
1:47
A series of experiences that you do not choose and that you have experienced out of fear of loneliness. A reflection on how the passing of time makes you belong nowhere, as if you were just another tune in the middle of a set of stations.

Separation
by Rufus Dye-Montefiore, Luke Dye-Montefiore & Alice Boyd
4:52
Separation is a trip through geologic time, depicting the evolution of bizarre hybrids. The film explores the dichotomy between how species diverge and coexist, and our inevitable adaptation to an evolving world.
AIFF 2023
winners
Generation
by Riccardo Fusetti
Grand Prix

Checkpoint
by Áron Filkey and Joss Fong
Gold

Given Again
by Jake Oleson
Silver

Original Voice
by Jordan Rosenbloom
Honoree

PLSTC
by Laen Sanches
Honoree

Landscape
by Kyle Goodrich
Merit

I want 1000 Rabbits
by Shan He
Merit

AI ARTIST
by Jessey Nelson and Dani Barker
Merit

A$AP Rocky - Shittin Me
by Dan Streit and Cole Kush
Merit

Expanded Childhood
by Sam Lawton
Merit
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