Science-fiction shorts that use AI somewhere in the making. These are human-led works, with different methods and different ideas of what a future might feel like.
Browse the filmsOne film combines 2D animation, footage and AI. For the festival selections, Runway confirms AI tools were used but does not always explain which shots or production stages used them. We do not label a film “fully AI-generated” without that evidence.
Editorial picks, not a ranking. Availability on external sites can change.
By Ricardo Villavicencio & Edward Saatchi
A crew follows Voyager I beyond a ruined Earth and encounters beings who want human bodies again.
How AI fits: Villavicencio describes a hybrid of 2D animation, experimental footage and AI, with named writers, animators and sound artists.
By Jacob Adler
An idea-driven trip through the possibility that every digital image, including lives never lived, already exists somewhere in pixel space.
How AI fits: A Runway AI Film Festival selection. Its listing establishes AI-tool use, but does not detail the film's complete production method.
By Junie Lau
A mathematician's digital comics open a world whose virtual children try to understand the reality around them.
How AI fits: Selected by Runway's AI Film Festival, whose 2024 criteria required AI-powered tools in the creative process.
By Hachi and IO
A swordsman, an immortal and a cosmic being cross timelines in a story about family and memory.
How AI fits: A Runway AI Film Festival selection; the listing does not identify which shots or stages used AI.
Each has a sci-fi or speculative premise, a named creator and a primary festival or creator source. The page uses no unlicensed film stills. If a link stops working or a production detail changes, the original listing takes precedence.
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