Miglior Corto in IA (Best AI Short)
Sinuca de Bico (Cornered)
Odair Faléco e Davi Moori
Festivals · Festival · Strand of an established festival
Torino Underground Cinefest: AI Visions
Part of Torino Underground Cinefest
The AI competition of Turin's independent Torino Underground Cinefest, now in its second year as AI Visions.
- Organiser
- Associazione Culturale SystemOut, with Associazione Baretti
- Held
- Annual
2027
Entries openCinema Baretti, Turin · Deadline · 9 Nov 2026
Deadline
Deadline B, one of the paid entry tiers
Key dates
About this edition
- Eligibility
- Films completed after January 1, 2021, made partially or entirely with AI; no premiere status required. English subtitles (except for Italian and Spanish films); AI-generated subtitles are not accepted. Paid entry.
- Prizes
- A Best AI Film award among the festival's special awards.
2026
ResultsCinema Baretti, Turin · Results published 5 Oct 2026
Winners
Why it matters
Torino Underground Cinefest is an independent festival in its thirteenth edition. Its AI competition shows an established festival giving AI-made work a competitive lane of its own, screened in a cinema alongside conventional features and documentaries rather than in a separate technology showcase.
Editions
The AI award was new in 2026: Cornered by Odair Faléco and Davi Moori won Best AI Short, announced at the festival’s close on October 4 and published the next day. The organiser’s TUC13 history page carries an older awards block that contradicts these results; the official results article is used here. No jury is named for the AI section.
For 2027 the section becomes AI Visions, “a new competitive section dedicated to films created partially or entirely using Artificial Intelligence”, with a Best AI Film award. The rules give September 2, 2026 as the call opening. FilmFreeway lists September 11 as the platform opening.
November 5, 2026
The festival’s FilmFreeway listing gives November 9 for its next paid entry tier and August 9, 2027 for its final entry deadline. The written rules still say mid-August. FilmFreeway lists the festival for September 27 to October 3, 2027. The rules’ August 16 date is for delivering screening copies of selected films.