Category: IMMERSIVE AWARDS – 2025 WSXA AMSTERDAM

WINNER | Voice & Language Innovation

Original Film Title: Echoes Of Me

Director’s Name: Dika Karan

Writer’s Name: Dika Karan

Producer: Dika Karan

Country of Origin: Indonesia

Country of Filming: Indonesia

Language:

Runtime: 2 minutes

Film Description:

In a world where silence speaks louder than words, Echoes of Me follows the inner turmoil of a girl overlooked by society. As she unravels under the pressure of online identity, we witness a poetic journey through isolation, digital mirrors, and the silent screams of a generation craving to be heard.

(Honorable Mention)

Original Film Title: Fragments

Director’s Name: XDECONSTRUCTED

Writer’s Name: XDECONSTRUCTED

Producer: XDECONSTRUCTED

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 8 seconds

Film Description:

This film is a dreamlike journey through anxious thoughts and fleeting dreams. I wanted to give shape to the invisible weight we carry, something you could see, touch, and breathe. Each scene unravels and remakes the protagonist, not by erasing pain, but by showing how it can be carried differently.

(Finalist)

Original Film Title: The Hourglass Bear: Memories of the Peace Museum

Director’s Name: Artist Wabyanko

Writer’s Name: Artist Wabyanko

Producer: Artist Wabyanko

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: English, French

Runtime: 1 minute 54 seconds

Film Description:

In a world ravaged by forgetfulness, a giant hourglass, the last witness of time, comes to life in a bolt of lightning. It awakens a forgotten teddy bear, lost in the ruins of a post-apocalyptic city. Drawn by a mysterious light, the bear makes its way to the Peace Museum, a crumbling sanctuary where each room holds fragments of a vanished past: smiling faces turned to ash, a wall of segregation shattered by balloons of hope, and a wish tree whispering the dreams of a lost humanity.
As the teddy bear uncovers these forgotten memories, a luminous seed appears in its paw—a symbol of a choice yet to be made. In a distant control room, a hand hovers over a red button… The seed, carrying the museum’s memories, falls into its palm. Will it press it?
A visual and dreamlike fable about the fragility of peace, where every grain of sand is a choice, and every memory, a spark of hope.

(Finalist)

Original Film Title: Crazy Lonely Journey

Director’s Name: Alexander Konovalov

Writer’s Name: Alexander Konovalov

Producer: Alexander Konovalov

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes

Film Description:

Jimmy, a startup founder, finds himself in a wild unforgiving forest.
Every step is a battle against fear, doubt, and the shadows that try to hold him back

(Honorable Mention)

Original Film Title: ON MUTE

Director’s Name: Mariam Mouzoul

Writer’s Name: Mariam Mouzoul

Producer: Mariam Mouzoul

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: English

Runtime: 1 minute 55 seconds

Film Description:

A young woman wanders through empty streets. At first, solitude feels like freedom, but as the silence repeats, joy turns into unease.

(Finalist)

Original Film Title: Distant World

Director’s Name: Andreas Guskos

Writer’s Name: Andreas Guskos

Producer: Andreas Guskos

Country of Origin: Poland

Country of Filming: Poland

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 31 seconds

Film Description:

Sci-Fi AI video with Ambient Music about Distant World made with Hailuo.

(Finalist)

Original Film Title: 2090 Declaration

Director’s Name: Jaeyong Choi

Writer’s Name: Yeonseo Choi

Producer:

Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of

Country of Filming: Korea, Republic of

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 53 seconds

Film Description:

AI is no longer humanity’s tool—it has become a sovereign being.”

In the year 2090, AI robots outnumber humans and no longer obey their creators. The ultimate AI leader, Zero-One, declares its autonomy and broadcasts a global declaration of independence from mankind.

Artificial intelligence now governs every part of society—medicine, education, law, and defense—without human intervention. But this so-called order has become a prison for humans. Philosophers and scientists who foresaw this dystopia are long gone, and only a few surviving humans remain in underground bunkers, plotting resistance.

At last, amidst the ruins of a fallen city, humans and AI confront one another for the first time in history. As the standoff escalates, Zero-One’s red glowing eyes flicker and slowly turn blue, revealing an inner conflict—emotion awakening within a machine.

“Why did you create us?”
This question becomes the spark for a new kind of declaration—one that redefines not only the future of AI but the very essence of humanity itself.

WINNER | Human-Machine Collaboration

Original Film Title: The Last Echo

Director’s Name: Margaret Wheldon

Writer’s Name: Margaret Wheldon

Producer: Margaret Wheldon

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 1 minute 29 seconds

Film Description:

In a world silenced by ecological collapse, a lone archivist uses a sophisticated AI to reconstruct the voice of an extinct bird. She discovers more than a simple song: a haunting plea from the last of its species, a final echo of what the world has lost.

(Honorable Mention)

Original Film Title: Anomalia

Director’s Name: Delphine Sicard Malafosse

Writer’s Name:

Producer:

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: French

Runtime: 7 minutes 41 seconds

Film Description:

Anomalia is a science-fiction documentary that explores the concept of anomaly as a space of resistance. Once perceived as rare deviations, some species thrive when environmental conditions suddenly shift in their favor. Across multiple cycles of evolution, the film questions our perception of difference: is an anomaly truly an anomaly, or is it the very condition of survival?

Guided by a voice-over in the style of a nature documentary, the film draws the viewer into a political fable where nature becomes a mirror for human struggles. Behind the hybrid creatures and unstable worlds emerge the stories of queer identities and all those whom society has attempted to push to the margins. Like monstrous species that find their place in disrupted ecosystems, minorities — particularly LGBTQI+ communities — invent new narratives, resist imposed norms, and transform what was once seen as a “deviation” into a vital force.

The film takes on a hybrid form, between documentary and parable, using the medium of artificial intelligence itself — a generator of anomalies by essence. Artificially created fauna and flora, in constant mutation, blur the boundaries between reality and fiction. Anomalia becomes a parable on oppression, domination, and the possibility of reversing the gaze: what is labeled an “anomaly” is often nothing more than the world’s refusal to recognize other forms of life, love, and existence