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World AI Documentary Festival<\/strong>
\nin Cannes<\/span><\/h1><\/h2><\/div>
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Where Truth Meets a New Eye<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The documentary has always been the mirror of the world \u2014 the gaze of a human being cast upon a reality that no one else could have seen in this way. Artificial intelligence does not change that truth. It gives it new ways to be expressed.<\/p>\n<\/div>

The World AI Documentary Festival in Cannes is an AI documentary festival dedicated to factual films using artificial intelligence with transparency and artistic purpose.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"Worldis a\u00a0 \u00a0\"Festival\u00a0 Festival on FilmFreeWay<\/p>\n<\/div>

Submissions for 2027 are now open!<\/p>\n<\/div>

<\/i>Submit<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The \u201cLuciole d\u2019Or\u201d (Golden Firefly), which epitomizes the World AI Documentary Festival, is on a mission \u2014 to unearth rare gems, highlighting a New Generation of emerging talents and a Future Wave of creators deserving greater visibility and recognition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>

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OUR MISSION<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The World AI Documentary Festival<\/strong> was born from a tension familiar to every documentary filmmaker: between the raw truth of reality and the need to shape it so that it can move, question, and transform. For decades, that shaping was limited by budget, access to archives, and the technical ability to reconstruct. AI radically changes this equation. A filmmaker can now reconstruct inaccessible historical events, explore forbidden territories, and give a voice to those whom no camera has ever filmed<\/strong> \u2014 without ever betraying the truth they carry. Our mission is to recognize and amplify these new documentary languages, driven by filmmakers who understand that AI is above all a tool of access \u2014 to reality as much as to the invisible.<\/p>\n

Directly affiliated with the World Film Festival in Cannes \u2013 Remember the Future,<\/strong> founded by filmmaker Karolina Bomba \u2014 the first festival in the world to award AI-generated creations as early as 2020 \u2014 the World AI Documentary Festival is rooted in a founding principle: AI in the service of the human gaze, never in its place.<\/strong> Our conviction is that technology only has value through the ethical rigor of the person who holds it. AI breaks the boundaries of what is possible: a journalist-filmmaker without an archive budget can now reconstruct a forgotten chapter of history. An isolated researcher can transform massive datasets into a living, accessible, moving story. The limit is no longer the means \u2014 it is the intention.<\/p>\n<\/div>

OUR THREE PILLARS<\/strong><\/p>\n
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The vision above all<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Every film is assessed on the relevance of its subject, the depth of its investigation, and the strength of its point of view. AI is a tool. The documentary is what the filmmaker chooses to show through it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Responsible truth<\/strong><\/h4>\n

We require that every use of AI \u2014 reconstruction, archive synthesis, visual generation \u2014 be explicitly disclosed in the film. Transparency is not a weakness: it is a mark of integrity.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

A universal platform<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Journalist-filmmakers, researchers, independent authors, visual activists \u2014 open to all nationalities, all subjects, and all documentary forms, from short films to feature-length works.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

OUR CODE OF ETHICS<\/strong><\/p>\n
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ETHICAL CHARTER \u2014 BEHIND EVERY AI IMAGE, A FILMMAKER. BEHIND EVERY DATASET, A HUMAN BEING.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

We expect every participant’s work to clearly reflect their creative process: presentation of the subject, intention behind the approach, role of AI in the making of the film. An author who masters their tool also knows how to tell their truth.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

THE JURY & THE SELECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n
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An international jury<\/strong> composed of documentary filmmakers, investigative journalists, historians, researchers, and media ethics experts evaluates each film according to rigorous criteria: relevance of the subject, strength of the investigation, transparency in the use of AI, narrative power, and editorial integrity.<\/strong> The winners are honored during the annual ceremony of the World AI Documentary Festival, in Cannes \u2014 where the world’s great truths have always found a stage worthy of them. Submitting to the World AI Documentary Festival means affirming that your subject deserves to be heard \u2014 and that you had the audacity to find a new path to tell it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Submissions for 2027 are
\nnow open!<\/p><\/h4><\/div>

Submit on\"World<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\" members receive a 10% discount on their submissions<\/p>\n<\/div>

<\/i>Submit<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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