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New AI Movies and Short Films: A 2023–2026 Catalog Guide
New is relative in a fast-moving film field, so this guide uses the year recorded in the CinemaMarketplace catalog rather than claiming a universal release order. The current 75-film collection contains twenty-eight titles dated 2026, twenty-nine dated 2025, fourteen dated 2024, and four dated 2023. That chronology makes it easy to start with the newest documented work while still seeing earlier films that shaped the catalog. Fifty-six titles play on their film pages and nineteen use official outbound sources; the viewing route is stated separately from the year and carries no ranking implication. Years follow the current catalog metadata. 2026 and 2025 mean newer within this catalog, not a claim that every title is newly released on today's date.
1. The 2026 entries: longer stories and synthetic identity
The twelve films dated 2026 all play here. Last stop, ZONE 30, A BETTER SIGHT, THE HEALER – SIGNAL 432, In Another Breath, and OLYMPIC join AI MAN, Tairell Isn't Real, DEEP, Oneiric, and the first two chapters of The Chronicles of Bone. Together they widen the year's catalog from synthetic identity and digital consciousness into road drama, Afrofuturism, healing, animation, and episodic science fiction.
The 2026 cohort spans runtimes from three to twenty-six minutes. In Another Breath offers a compact emotional arc, while ZONE 30 and the Chronicles chapters ask generated characters and environments to remain legible across longer narratives. Every entry has an official YouTube embed, creator attribution, runtime, release date, and production context on its profile.
2. The 2025 play-here wave: genre, competition, and worldbuilding
The 2025 embedded titles cover several short-film modes. The Myth, Feast, and The Conclave each run two minutes and emphasize fantasy, dark construction, or ceremonial atmosphere. ANYWHEN runs one minute as a GEN:48 science-fiction proof of concept, while TO THE VOID uses four minutes for an experimental reflection on adaptation and absence. These works are useful for a rapid new-film sampler because the catalog supplies official embedded releases and enough contextual differences to avoid mistaking one competition format for one genre.
The expanded 2025 play-here cohort adds Echo Hunter and A Memory Too Far, Edge of Silence, GENERATING..., AIVY°, DON'T PUSH, and Futuro. Alongside The Heir, Hallow Metro, Total Pixel Space, Céremony, and Copernicus, their aims range from connected science-fiction stories and poetic drama to corporate comedy, synthetic music culture, competition filmmaking, and experimental tool testing. Browse by the premise you want rather than treating the year as a quality ladder.
3. The 2025 festival selection: memory, futures, and altered perception
Nine catalog films dated 2025 use the official Runway AI Film Festival route. JAILBIRD follows a chicken entering a human prison; ONE follows transhuman travelers beyond a collapsed Earth; RŌHKI — A Million Trillion Pathways crosses timelines in a cosmic conflict. These narrative premises can anchor a festival session before moving toward work whose listings foreground memory or perception. Outbound viewing does not make these titles less available in the catalog; it means the official festival screening room supplies the player.
Distance Between Two Points of Me, More Tears Than Harm, Fragments of Nowhere, 6000 Lies, Editorial, and Emergence complete the 2025 outbound group. Their descriptions cover displacement and grief, memories of Madagascar, unstable reality, reconstructed images, authenticity and fabrication, and a creature's brief transformation. Together with the seventeen embedded releases, they make 2025 the catalog's largest annual cohort at twenty-six films total. The number describes this collection only; it is not a claim about worldwide releases.
4. The 2024 catalog: AI-assisted animation, GEN:48, and festival breadth
Five 2024 films play here. Air Head is the two-minute Sora short by Shy Kids; The Barrier is a five-minute cryogenic-mission story; Breathkeeper is a four-minute GEN:48 science-fiction short. BEATRICE uses two minutes for a dreamlike fantasy encounter, while LAPSE shifts from narrative worldbuilding toward loneliness, unwanted experience, and passing time. This group shows why year-based lists need descriptions: films made around the same period can differ in tool context, storytelling structure, genre, and length.
The 2024 outbound group contains Get Me Out / 囚われて, Pounamu, e^(iπ) + 1 = 0, Where Do Grandmas Go When They Get Lost?, The Dawn of Creation, A Tree Once Grew Here, Dear Mom, Animitas, and Separation. All open the official Runway screening room. Across surreal confinement, animated journey, digital cosmology, family fable, historical fantasy, environmental storytelling, gratitude, tragedy, and geologic change, the set offers breadth without requiring a claim that all nine share a production workflow beyond their catalog and festival context.
5. The 2023 entries: earlier reference points for the catalog
The four films dated 2023 are Last Stand, The Frost, LET US EXPLORE, and The Dog & The Boy. Last Stand documents an early AI-assisted workflow spanning concept art, script development, voices, and other creative decisions. The Frost is a twelve-minute AI-generated science-fiction film made by Waymark with image-generation and animation tools. LET US EXPLORE is a one-minute character-led GEN:48 short. All three play here.
The Dog & The Boy opens Netflix Japan and is described specifically as an animated short that drew attention for AI-assisted background generation. Keep that assisted qualifier when placing it beside more broadly generated work. A chronological guide should not imply that these four were the first AI films or that the catalog is a complete historical record. They are simply its earliest currently listed year cohort, useful for comparing stated production context and viewing form with the 2024–2026 entries above.
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