Transforming What You Carry

Our inaugural theme asks filmmakers to turn personal, social, political, emotional, environmental, and existential concerns into cinematic expression through AI-assisted creative practice.

What weighs on you? What follows you? What have you inherited, witnessed, survived, or dreamed? AI gives filmmakers a new set of tools to give these invisible loads shape, sound, and motion — to transform private weight into shared story.

There is no prescribed style and no correct interpretation. Documentary, narrative, animation, or something between — we want films that carry meaning, made by creators bold enough to set it down on screen.