Cinematic Frontier: AI Program

Cinematic Frontier: AI Program

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We follow a boy as he unboxes his first camera and documents summer with his grandparents. What begins as experimentation becomes a chronicle of small wonders, revealing traces of magic in everyday life. Created with AI (bar one shot), it celebrates the nostalgia of childhood summers and the dreamlike wonder family brings to our lives.

Director
Léo Cannone
Time
0:11:35
Country
France
Genre
Drama
Year
2025

Awards Nominations

Bionic Awards - Winner Best Short Film
AI International Film Festival - Winner
Unhuman Shorts - Visual Impact Winner
BIAIFF - Winner
WAIFF Cannes - Finalist Selection (to be announced)
Indie European Cinema & Screenplay Festival - Finalist Selection (to be announced)
AI Movie Awards - Finalist Selection (to be announced)

Director

Léo Cannone

Léo is a French director crafting poetic narratives where magic and reality intertwine. Inspired by childhood memories, his work explores imagination in a deeply personal yet universal way. Trained in art and cinema in Paris, he creates across film and visual arts, using AI as a creative partner to build immersive, dreamlike worlds.

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Its unique visual language and its ability to give form to memories that were never recorded. The film blends AI-generated imagery with a very organic, almost documentary-like approach, creating something that feels both unreal and deeply familiar at the same time. It allows me to recreate moments that no longer exist, or that were never captured in the first place. Not exact reconstructions, but emotional re-creations, closer to how we remember than how things actually were. Instead of using AI for spectacle, it becomes a tool to access something intimate and subjective, like a memory that shifts, transforms, and sometimes invents itself. The viewer is not just watching a story, but entering a living memory.

Screening

Screening Venue

VenueScheduleTicket Reservation
MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives2026.05.26 [Tue] 17:30-19:20
MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives2026.05.28 [Thu] 14:30-16:10
LIFORK HARAJUKU2026.06.07 [Sun] 12:00-18:30

Online Screening

OnlinescheduleOnline Screening
Online Screening2026.05.25 [Mon] - 2026.06.10 [Wed]

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Sponsors

KODANSHA Ltd.

CyberAgent, Inc.

T.Y. Limited, Inc.

Hoppy Beverage co.

DeCurret DCP Inc.

ElevenLabs

Digital Hollywood Co., Ltd.

CRG Co.,Ltd.

The JIKEI COM Group of Colleges

Web3.0
Partner

Nihonchokuhan Inc.

Event
Partner

TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY

MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives

Creative Partner

TYO Inc.

Media Partners

J-WAVE

Tokyo Weekender

TOKYO HEADLINE

Media Supporters

cinemacafe.net

Kinema Junposha., Ltd

ORICON NEWS

Festival Supporter

MORI Building

Venue Supporter

NTT Urban Development Corporation

Tokyo Tokyo Festival