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16 AI Drama Short Films to Watch Online
Browse the complete Drama collection: 13 films play directly here, while 3 continue to their official festival source.
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Compact reflections through longer moral stories centered on memory, family, identity, and consequence.
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2026 · 11 min 9 sec · Mike de Laat · Play here
The Bridge
A journey onto a bridge is overtaken by an earthquake, turning the crossing into a survival ordeal that leads toward reunion. The short builds its dramatic progression through the journey, the crisis, and the human need to reach the other side.
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2026 · 4 min 21 sec · Studio Mad Mind · Play here
MURMURATION
Adam has spent his life waiting for an inciting incident while extraordinary moments happen to everyone around him. When that pattern suddenly disappears, he must stop treating himself as a background character and make one small, brave choice.
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2026 · 20 min 6 sec · Higgsfield Originals · Play here
ANERNEQ
In 1920s Chukotka, a young huntress guides her father—whose fading memory mistakes her for his late wife—across the polar night toward Whale Bone Alley. Their journey turns an Arctic survival crossing into a story of love, sacrifice, and the cost of letting go.
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2026 · 16 min 34 sec · Isaias Garcia · Play here
INÉS
In Buenos Aires in 1982, Santi invents daily reasons to ride the cage elevator with Inés, the composed wife of an army general. As the Falklands conflict reaches their Recoleta building, his quiet infatuation gives way to the reality of what is coming.
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2026 · 4 min 17 sec · M. Comanducci · Play here
DUMMY
After a lifetime spent absorbing other people's impacts, a discarded crash-test dummy wakes in a warehouse and confronts what it means to be the one who always takes the hit.
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2026 · 5 min 32 sec · Hiroki Shioya · Play here
REFRAME
A chance encounter interrupts an ordinary commuter's routine and helps him notice the colors, small kindnesses, and quiet beauty that had been present all along.
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2026 · 5 min 14 sec · FILMS FROM NOWHERE · Play here
VACAN Y
At a coastal motel, Mia's son checks in with a girl and a name he hopes his mother will not question; nobody says what they came to say, but everyone hears it.
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2026 · 8 min 53 sec · PASAKON & ILAG Studio · Play here
SORRY, SIR
A museum cleaner damages a wall; before it can be repaired, a visitor mistakes the crack for art and the institution builds a price, an artist, and a critical story around it.
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2026 · 5 min 14 sec · FILMS FROM NOWHERE · Play here
THE PALACE
Across one cinema and nearly a century, Helena Kowalski and her daughter Zofia keep returning to the same darkened room as history changes around them and the audience's faces carry the story of moviegoing forward.
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2026 · 7 min 39 sec · AAIRON STUDIO · Play here
BILL
An invisible green-suited stunt performer who played cinema's ghosts, monsters, and heroes without recognition is offered a chance to be seen at last in a bittersweet tribute to unseen creative labor.
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2026 · 12 min · Nicolas Demetri · Play here
ZONE 30
A defensive driver resents a new speed limit until a supernatural vision confronts him with the human cost of one careless moment, in Nicolas Demetri's character-driven AI short.
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2025 · 6 min · Elisabeth Guthmann · Play here
Edge of Silence
A poetic drama translating trauma, dissociation, and resilience into dreamlike visual metaphors, written and directed by Elisabeth Guthmann.
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2025 · 6 min · Yalin Solmaz · Play here
The Heir
An award-recognized narrative AI short built around inheritance, family expectation, and the human choices that determine what is carried forward.
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2025 · 3 min · Andrew Salter · Official source
JAILBIRD
A Gold-winning short that follows a chicken through the disorienting experience of entering a human prison.
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2025 · 2 min · Illya Dutsyk, Bogdan Nesvit & Anatolii Kasianov · Official source
Distance Between Two Points of Me
A reflective film about displacement, memory, grief, and the emotional distance between presence and absence.
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2024 · 3 min · Johans Saldana Guadalupe & Katie Luo · Official source
Dear Mom
A daughter imagines meeting her mother at the same age in a personal letter about love and gratitude.
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