About the Festival
Where Cinema Meets the Unknown

Cinema has always evolved through experimentation. From the invention of sound and colour to digital filmmaking, each technological transformation has challenged established artistic conventions and opened new possibilities for storytelling.

Artificial intelligence represents another turning point, one whose artistic possibilities are only beginning to emerge.

The Tokyo AI New Wave Film Festival is an international platform dedicated to exploring the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence, cinema, and human creativity. Our mission is to support filmmakers, artists, and creators who are discovering new ways to imagine, produce, and experience moving images.

We believe that AI cinema should not be confined to a single definition, technique, genre, or aesthetic. The field is still young, and some of its most important developments may emerge from experiments that do not resemble conventional filmmaking at all.

The festival therefore welcomes a wide range of creative approaches, from traditionally structured films incorporating AI technology to entirely AI-generated productions, experimental moving-image works, animation, documentaries, hybrid projects, music videos, and emerging audiovisual forms.

We are interested not only in what artificial intelligence can produce, but also in how artists can challenge, reinterpret, and transform its possibilities.

Inspired by the spirit of cinematic innovation and the tradition of artistic exploration, Tokyo AI New Wave seeks to create an open environment where established filmmakers, emerging artists, independent creators, and technological innovators can present their work without being restricted by conventional expectations.