The MarsAI Festival awards the prizes of its first edition in Marseille.

MarsAI Festival in Marseille awarded its Grand Prize to Alessandro Cannarozzi, Carlo Di Piazza, and Silvia Perizzolo's film A Hopefully Not So Distant Future.

The MarsAI Festival held its first edition last Friday in Marseille, at La Plateforme, with an awards ceremony. Co-created by the digital school La Plateforme and Bruno Smadja, founder of the Mobile Film Festival, the event celebrates generative AI creative cinema and offered free conferences, workshops, and screenings. LHC was its media partner.

The competition brought together one-minute films, AI-generated or hybrid, from around the world, on the theme of desirable futures, conceived to move beyond dystopian narratives. Fifty works made up the official selection.

Among the winners, the Grand Prize, accompanied by a ten-thousand-euro production grant supported by La Plateforme, goes to A Hopefully Not So Distant Future, by Alessandro Cannarozzi, Carlo Di Piazza, and Silvia Perizzolo, which also won the Desirable Future Award. The Screenplay Award goes to Utopsie by Anthony Smeyers, the Directing Award to Artificial Comfort by Carmen Moreno, and the AI Studio Award to CROCO MONSIEUR by Nicolo Montori. The jury was chaired by director Gilles Guerraz, notably surrounded by artistic director Nathalie Dupuy, author and director Jérôme Genevray, and AI artists Melody Bossan and Cloë Saint-Jours.