Category: IMMERSIVE AWARDS – WSXA AMSTERDAM 2026

Original Film Title: THE SEVEN BOOKS

Director’s Name: SAMO RERA

Writer’s Name: SAMO RERA

Producer: SAMO RERA

Country of Origin: Egypt

Country of Filming: Egypt

Language: English, Mandarin Chinese, Persian, Spanish

Runtime: 14 minutes 27 seconds

Film Description:

MERATH. Five civilizations that survived the same war and none of them tells it the same way.

Rovan is a VARKESH reconstruction specialist. His work is making bodies survive conditions they were never built to survive.

An ancient sealed structure is opened, and he goes down with the team that opens it. Below, there are people. They have lived without daylight for so long that the light itself will kill them. There is no wall holding them there. The sun is the lock.

What Rovan can build would let them walk out. It would also make his own kingdom the door they have to ask permission at.

Nobody in this story owns the truth. Everyone behaves as though they do.

Original Film Title: Lioness by Maansi T.

Director’s Name: Maansi T.

Writer’s Name: Maansi T.

Producer: Maansi T.

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 27 seconds

Film Description:

“Lioness” is a powerful anthem born out of raw life experience, resilience, and the ultimate reclamation of personal power. It traces the profound journey of a soul who has played every role from an understanding friend and a silent lover to a damsel in distress. For too long, boundaries were pushed, patience was tested, and kindness was taken for granted.

Every individual reaches a definitive turning point. “Lioness” captures that exact moment of awakening where the broken soul transforms into a fighting warrior. It is about stepping forward with absolutely no regret, unapologetically taking the reins of your life, and refusing to tolerate nonsensical behavior. When the line is crossed, the time for compromise is over. Ultimately, the song celebrates a fierce, independent spirit that knows exactly when to care—and when to walk away, letting a deafening silence speak volumes.

The vocals feature a voice clone of Maansi T, designed closely to her actual vocal range and kept in mind so that live performances can be made using her actual vocal range. The lyrics are written by Maansi T (2026) and are registered under copyright law in United Kingdom.

Note on Imagery: The cinematic sequence featuring the gravestone is a visual metaphor representing the transition from past limitations to personal empowerment—the symbolic resting place of the “damsel in distress.”

Original Film Title: Gediminas’ Dream: The Galactic Code of Peace

Director’s Name: Gediminas Sinkevicius

Writer’s Name: Gediminas Sinkevicius

Producer: Gediminas Sinkevicius

Country of Origin: Lithuania

Country of Filming: Lithuania

Language: English, Lithuanian, Spanish

Runtime: 3 minutes 12 seconds

Film Description:

“Gediminas’ Dream: The Galactic Code of Peace” is a pioneering 5.7K @ 120Hz VR experience that radically reimagines the 14th-century founding myth of Vilnius. Fusing ancient Baltic mysticism, high-tech space opera, and immersive spatial audio, the film unveils a historic legend as a vital, multi-dimensional cosmic prophecy hidden in plain sight for centuries.

Original Film Title: Pillow Men

Director’s Name: Jacky Wong

Writer’s Name: Jacky Wong

Producer: Jacky Wong

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 5 minutes 26 seconds

Film Description:

Pillow Men is a short music video steeped in a dark, absurdist aesthetic. In a world governed by the Pillow System, people voluntarily don white square-shaped pillows, surrendering their consciousness to an AI system. Under the guise of benefiting humanity, the system distills individual skills, creativity, and emotions into replaceable tapes—archived and ready for deployment at any moment.
The protagonist, a lone dissenter who refuses the pillow, is marked as a depreciated asset by the system, hunted, captured, and subjected to forced assimilation. She breaks free, sabotages the system’s power core, and triggers a cascading collapse. Yet when she stands on an overpass looking down at the city, she discovers that faced with the choice to take it off or not, those who briefly awakened have all chosen the same path.
The film culminates in a solitary vocal performance amid a torrential storm—a modern fable about freedom, control, and the haunting question: Is blankness also a crime?
All visual assets were AI-generated and human-refined. Every stage of the production was handled by a single person.

Original Film Title: Second Chance

Director’s Name: Piotr Szymon Suszka

Writer’s Name: Piotr Szymon Suszka

Producer: Piotr Szymon Suszka

Country of Origin: Poland

Country of Filming: Poland

Language: Polish

Runtime: 12 minutes 2 seconds

Film Description:

This short film is a proof of concept and serves as the first chapter of a larger story, whose future parts have already been planned. It presents only a fragment of its events, characters and mysteries, leaving the audience with questions whose answers lie within a broader narrative developed through an ebook, a screenplay and future film projects.

“Second Chance” combines thriller, action cinema, metaphysical elements and themes related to artificial intelligence in a story about loss, redemption and the struggle to reclaim one’s life.

Original Film Title: I.AM.2042

Director’s Name: Sara Niroobakhsh

Writer’s Name: Sara Niroobakhsh

Producer: Sara Niroobakhsh

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming: Canada

Language: English

Runtime: 6 minutes 33 seconds

Film Description:

This film is a diary spoken aloud — not for an audience, but for the sake of remembering. It doesn’t tell a story. It listens to what remains when stories disappear.

Each scene is a breath held in time. A trace. A refusal to vanish.

What you hear is a woman who speaks from a future where nothing is stable — not land, not memory, not language. She speaks quietly, because everything loud has already collapsed.

This is not about what happened. It’s about what was never allowed to happen. A birth that only took place in a dream. A name never written. A place never returned.

The film holds space for what is unrecorded — not as absence, but as presence. A different kind of survival.

Original Film Title: HAYDON: Patron Saint of the Obsessed

Director’s Name: Lucas Sabean

Writer’s Name: Lucas Sabean

Producer: Lucas Sabean

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 19 minutes 21 seconds

Film Description:

The tragic, true story of 19th-century painter Benjamin Robert Haydon’s relentless fight for artistic immortality, told through the consuming obsession of his own private journal

Original Film Title: A New Day

Director’s Name: Dariush Rezaei

Writer’s Name: Dariush Rezaei

Producer: Dariush Rezaei

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: English

Runtime: 11 minutes

Film Description:

When a “Text-to-Reality” AI update grants him god-like power from his bedroom, a teenager’s playful experiments spiral into something he can’t undo.