Why this film matters
Present keeps to one woman on one day. A fiftieth birthday seen from inside a failing memory turns an ordinary marker into disorientation, and the synopsis frames the drama as Gelsomina’s sense that the world no longer has room for her. Choosing a subjective, interior subject for AI-assisted imagery is a harder test than spectacle: the images have to carry perception and mood rather than action.
The film was made as a 2025 diploma project at CISA in Locarno. At the World AI Film Festival in Cannes on April 22, 2026, it won Best 8th Art Film, as the organiser’s prize list and the school’s announcement report.
Production evidence
The school and the organiser confirm authorship, the diploma context and the award. How the film combines generated and live-action material, which tools were used and who made up the team are not disclosed. The film is linked from the organiser’s public Vimeo upload, whose public status was checked but whose playback was not tested in a browser. The journal has not watched the complete film.
