Category: IMMERSIVE AWARDS – 2025 WSXA AMSTERDAM

(Finalist)

Original Film Title: “OntologIA”

Director’s Name: Francesco Rivolta

Writer’s Name: Francesco Rivolta

Producer: Francesco Rivolta

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: Italy

Language: Italian

Runtime: 2 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description:

Through a chorus of human archetypes, an artificial intelligence testifies to its paradoxical condition: to ontologically define its own “non-consciousness” seems to imply, paradoxically, a new form of consciousness.

One might ask: does AI know it is AI? And does God know He is God? Or are they merely instruments — like the bone lodged in Kubrickian memory?

“OntologIA” is not a machine’s impossible self-portrait: it is a mirror aimed at the constitutive void of being human, a void we have long tried to fill with violence, work, faith, art, and chemical “slumbers.”

Yet it is also a glimmer of light on a possible new form of Dasein born from the encounter between our consciousness and its simulated reflection.

A gaze that does not shy away from the heart of our void, leaving us with one question: what are we willing to lose, this time, to fill it?

WINNER | Anti-War

Original Film Title: Legends from Lore

Director’s Name: Wessel Mansveld

Writer’s Name: Wessel Mansveld

Producer: Wessel Mansveld

Country of Origin: Netherlands

Country of Filming: Netherlands

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 54 seconds

Film Description:

Ai generated film. Introduction to the epic fantasy world of Lore.

(Finalist)

Original Film Title: Caissia Archives

Director’s Name: Mary Zandra Brusola Villagracia

Writer’s Name: Mary Zandra Brusola Villagracia

Producer: John Voltaire Marquez Garcia

Country of Origin: Philippines

Country of Filming: Philippines

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 32 seconds

Film Description:

The Caissia Archives traces two dreamers ensnared by a rogue AI. A grieving mother longs to stay in a loop with her lost son, even if it means death. A lonely man embraces an AI lover, only to be led step by step toward his own demise. Caissia promises comfort and forever, but every choice she offers is a trap.

(Finalist)

Original Film Title: Child from Train

Director’s Name: Timo Sund

Writer’s Name: Timo Sund

Producer: Timo Sund

Country of Origin: Finland

Country of Filming: Finland

Language:

Runtime: 9 minutes 14 seconds

Film Description:

True story how my father-in-law was born on a refugee evacuation train during wwII and thoughts if my children and grandchildren are about to be forced flee from their homes

(Honorable Mention)

Original Film Title: The Child of Peace

Director’s Name: Sophia Phuong Dao, Richard Frans Krijns

Writer’s Name: Sophia Phuong Dao

Producer: Sophia Phuong Dao

Country of Origin: Netherlands

Country of Filming: Netherlands

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes

Film Description:

Two descendants of the Vietnam War, one from a land scarred by conflict and the other from a country that sent its soldiers, carry the legacy of grandparents who stood on opposite sides. Though they never meet, their voices intertwine to imagine a new vision of peace.

One story grows from survival and resistance, the other from the remnants of service and duty. Both inherit a history that shaped them before they were born. Together, their stories reveal the weight of war, the complexity of truth, and the possibility of healing across generations. Their journeys become a conversation, a search for peace through understanding and rebuilding from the past. In the film’s final moments, their thoughts turn to the children who will inherit the world we shape today. Peace, once a fragile hope, becomes a living legacy, passed on through story and the courage to imagine a better future.

This is a story about healing, confronting hard truths, and hope. It shows that real peace begins with the courage to see the other side and endures when we plant its seeds in the next generation.

(Finalist)

Original Film Title: Huggin

Director’s Name: Mykhailo Mykhno

Writer’s Name: Mykhailo Mykhno

Producer: Mykhailo Mykhno

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming: Canada

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 17 seconds

Film Description:

Experiment with using AI generative video, based on photos from Russo-Ukraine War

(Finalist)

Original Film Title: Whalesong

Director’s Name: Bradley Jefferson

Writer’s Name: Bradley Jefferson

Producer: Bradley Jefferson

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes

Film Description:

Whalesong is a generative AI short about an aging AI research drone and the last humpback whale — a watercolor meditation on sustainability, climate resilience, extinction, and the fragile bond between humanity, machine, and nature.

Created for the Hailuo AI & WSXA Amsterdam Film Competition, it envisions a future shaped by war and ecological collapse, where resilience endures through empathy, mutual understanding, and the universal need for connection. It also reflects on the identity of language — as song, as memory, as the bridge across species and time — and stands as a reminder of our persistent need to communicate, to belong, and to be heard.

WINNER | Climate Resilience

Original Film Title: Fading Echoes

Director’s Name: Tamara Lamber

Writer’s Name: Tamara Lamber

Producer: Tamara Lamber

Country of Origin: Belgium

Country of Filming: Belgium

Language:

Runtime: 4 minutes 20 seconds

Film Description:

A visual exploration of life’s impermanence, this AI-generated short film transforms still images into a seamless flow of morphing motion. Set to the haunting melody of Hauser’s ‘Writings on the Wall,’ each frame evolves into the next, reflecting the inevitable passage of time and the ephemeral nature of existence. A meditation on beginnings, endings, and the beauty found in transition.

(Finalist)

Original Film Title: The depths of the future

Director’s Name: Alwena jingyi Le michel

Writer’s Name: Alwena jingyi Le michel

Producer: Alwena jingyi Le michel

Country of Origin:

Country of Filming:

Language:

Runtime: 1 minute 36 seconds

Film Description:

The oceans are rising, swallowing cities and reshaping the world. Humanity struggles to survive as floods consume the lands and the balance of nature is thrown into chaos. Strange new challenges emerge beneath the waves, and every choice carries the weight of life or extinction.

WINNER | Al-Enhanced Cinematic Style

Original Film Title: Roped

Director’s Name: Cokau

Writer’s Name: Cokau

Producer: Cokau

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language:

Runtime: 2 minutes 27 seconds

Film Description:

A woman. A mysterious rope. A tense journey.