Monaco will host its first artificial intelligence film festival on 9th and 10th June at One Monte-Carlo, immediately following the Formula 1 Grand Prix, bringing together filmmakers, AI developers, digital artists, academics and technology industry representatives for two days of screenings, discussions and live creative challenges.
The AI Film Festival Monaco 2026, organised by WAIB Summit, is billed as the first festival of its kind in the Principality. It will draw participants from the worlds of cinema, generative AI and creative technology, alongside representatives of the Monaco government, European policymakers and leaders from the broader creative and technology sectors. Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft, the Yacht Club de Monaco and AS Monaco FC are among those confirmed to participate.
What’s on
The festival’s centrepiece is a 24-hour AI film hackathon, in which filmmakers, producers, AI developers and creative technologists will collaborate to produce an original AI-generated film within a single day using generative tools. A beach film screening and creative party will follow, with selected AI films screened outdoors along the Monaco coastline before a gathering for filmmakers, creators and guests.
Keynote sessions will feature industry leaders from cinema, artificial intelligence and creative technology, addressing the future of AI-driven storytelling and digital creativity. The festival concludes with the AI Film Awards ceremony, recognising the most innovative and artistically compelling AI-driven films across categories including best AI short film and best commercial brand film.
The jury and speakers
The jury includes Nick Shoolingin-Jordan, a series director at Netflix; Anthony Bourached, Associate Professor of Machine Learning and Creative AI at University College London; and Vincent Lowy, former head of the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière.
Speakers include film producer and director Jean Mach, President of Inevitable; director and producer Eric Atlan; design director Marten Kuipers; Isabel Martinez, creative director and digital creator formerly with Meta; and Kike Besada, AI creative director.
The broader question
The festival’s organisers frame the event around a question that extends beyond technology: what does it mean to create, at a moment when artificial intelligence is capable of generating images, narratives and emotional experiences? “Art may no longer belong exclusively to humankind,” the festival’s manifesto states, “but instead become a shared language between humans and intelligence.”
Filmmakers wishing to submit work can do so at aifilmfest-monaco.com.
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