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Cyber Kino

We. Future. Cinema.

About the festival

The entry point
to new cinema

Cyber Kino is a unique platform where the creative and technological worlds meet and cinema moves beyond conventional production. This is where the future of the industry takes shape, where new visual languages are born and formats appear that seemed impossible only a few years ago.

The core idea of the festival is to give talented people without large studios, multi-million budgets and huge teams a chance to enter the film industry through the new technologies that artificial intelligence provides. Today a single person with a strong idea can create projects that once required the resources of an entire film studio. Cyber Kino becomes the entry point for a new generation of directors, artists and digital creators.

Award categories

Six
directions

Main competition

A film is entered in one of these categories

  • The best short films created with artificial intelligence technologies.

  • A commercial case: an advertising project for a brand or a product. Running time from 10 seconds.

  • The best music videos and visual works created with generative AI.

  • Works that organically combine traditional live-action filming with the possibilities of AI. The share of AI is at least 30%.

Special awards

No separate entry — the jury grants these to films from the main competition

  • Recognition of outstanding creative vision in working with AI tools.

  • A work created with AI tools alone — by one person, without a team.

Business programme

More than
screenings

01 Dedicated event zone

A festival space where technology and cinema meet in person.

02 Lecture hall

Talks by practitioners on how AI is changing film production.

03 Panel discussions

Open conversations about the industry, authorship and the limits of new formats.

04 Networking

A meeting point for directors, artists, producers and digital creators.

05 AI Lab

Hands-on work with generative tools — from the idea to the finished shot.

Jury

Who watches
your films

Alexander Bashilov
Alexander Bashilov Russia 01
Alexander Bashilov

Founder of the Cyber Kino festival, CEO of the international production company NCPictures

Vasilika Bluket
Vasilika Bluket Armenia 02
Vasilika Bluket

Film scholar, marketing manager at the Wink streaming service, ex-development manager of Moscow Shorts IFF

Alexander Gavrilov
Alexander Gavrilov Russia 03
Alexander Gavrilov

Film director, producer, editor, award winner at international film festivals

Kirill Khaletskiy
Kirill Khaletskiy Belarus 04
Kirill Khaletskiy

Film director, winner of international film festivals, three-time laureate of the Fund of the President of the Republic of Belarus

Alexander Trifonov
Alexander Trifonov Russia 05
Alexander Trifonov

Development director at ArrowMedia, AI creator, winner of the international Promax Awards Global Excellence

Call for entries

Your film
belongs here

Submit a film

Where & when

Moscow
2026

Venue

Moscow

Event dates

11–13 December 2026

Format

International film festival

The festival venue will be announced soon