‘Love at first glance wins 2025. Answers AI Film Festival in Venice

At the MasterCard Salon at the ExcelSior Hotel, during the International Film Festival Venice, the second edition of the answers and the Film Festival announced its winners. Made by Global Consultance Answers, the Festival quickly became one of the most visible stakes for short-term filmmaking.

More than 2,500 submissions arrived from 67 countries, a sharp increase of 1,400 in the festival’s debut. Topic for 2025. The year was a “generation of emotions”, leading filmmaker for research as AI tools can create authentic, emotionally resonant experiences. Of these thousand entries, the international jury chose ten finalists whose work was shown and judged in Venice.

President of the jury, director of Gabriela Muccino, joining Minkoff, Caleb and Shelbi Ward, Denise Negri, Dave Clark, Charlie Fink, Charlie Fink, Filippo Rizzant, Caroline Ingeron, Paolo Mortinez Roura. Together, they rewarded three main awards and two special recognitions, stating originality, quality of production and thoughtful use and throughout the creative process, from screenwriter to post-production.

A large prize of 8,000 euros went Love at first sight Jacopo Real. “Win with Love at first sight It is not just a great honor, but also pushing to continue to explore visual and especially narrative opportunities to open, “Reala said in his acceptance.” The film is all about the act of observation: who imagines which imagines and how it is illusions and how it imagines. And it makes me distill stories about their essence, giving rhythm and meanings that do not exist in a traditional sense, but can still cause deep emotions. “

The President of the Muccino jury described the participation experience as revelation. “Ai reaches a point that is incredibly challenging, really tsunami that will completely change the world,” he said to the audience. “I was hit by the realism of certain panties, but what really drove us when something was truthful. Congratulations in all ways. Congratulations in all ways. Congratulations for all creators. Congratulations otherwise. Congratulations to all creators.

Winners of the answer from 2025. years and the Film Festival, from left to right:

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Another reward of 5,000 euros was awarded The cinema that has never been by Marko Vachholz. The filmmaker called it his “love letter to the lost dreams of the cinema.” He explained that he also acted as his “co-archonal imagination”, helping him investigate the landscape of films that have never been, the stories of unexpected and unrealized ideas that still persecute the audience. “The future of films for movie is not automation,” Vachholz said, “It’s an amplification of the vision. I’m so grateful to the Aiff’s response to those who don’t delight movies back to one of the epicenters of the film.”

The third reward of 2,000 euros went Liquid dream Andrea Lommatzsch. He worked with AI for years, Lommatzsch described it as a “real opportunity to create and create a movie theater.” The story, she said, she was the one she was wearing in it for years, and ai finally gave a chance to bring it to the screen.

In addition to the three main prizes, two special prizes pointed out the characteristic contributions. Lexus Visionary Award went Instinct Author: Marcello Junior Costa, work is fully created with an e-generated footage, but structured as a traditional film. “GEN-AI real film expression: someone else, anywhere, now can tell your stories,” Costa said. “I hope the movies continue to use it to use it to push creativity ahead and give more votes stage.”

AI for a good reward was awarded, presented with the International Union Telecommunications Clown Author: Shanshan Jiang. The film tells the story of talented clowns that loses itself as you strive to introduce the audience. Jiang described AI as a contributor who deepened his narration, extending the artistic expression outside of traditional means.

Techradar, who inspected the finalist in August, noticed the variety of access on the screen. Styles moved from Animea and NOR near the photorealistic worlds. Included entries in the station InstinctAccommodation-Skyscraper-Skyscraper and VFX-Driven Meme, me and ai According to the private island studio in the UK. The publication emphasized that the films are prove “do not necessarily mean that the end of creativity”, re-insisting the jury that technology serves as a catalyst, not a substitute.

Filippo Rizzant, CTO and one of the jurors, a frame festival as a “lab in which the cinema has met AI.” He claimed that when consciously used, artificial intelligence enhances artistic sensitivity, not to diminish it. “Award-winning short films show that technology does not replace artistic sensitivity, but it increases, offering young talents of new opportunities to experiment with languages, emotions and innovative visions.”

Defining the Venetian Film Festival and attracting thousands of international submissions, the answer and the Film Festival set position as one of the prime places to celebrate this exciting new phaset of cinematographic art.