{"slug": "ai-didnt-ruin-these-films-it-made-them-possible", "title": "AI didn’t ruin these films. It made them possible.", "summary": "At an AI film festival in Tokyo last month, an 11-minute short from a child's perspective won the audience's heart, while the festival's winner was an animated tale about a man with a facial disfigurement in Paris, and the crowd-pleaser 'The Postman' imagined a robot longing for human connection. The festival showcased that AI can enable films with deep humanity, contrary to expectations of low-quality output.", "body_md": "I went into an AI film festival in Tokyo last month expecting slop, and left surprised by how much humanity emanated from the screen.\n\nMy favorite was an 11-minute short from the point of view of a child with a camcorder spending a magical summer with his grandparents. He records his cereal, mermaid sightings and fleeting, sun-drenched images of youth.\n\nThe winner was an animated story about a man in Paris with a facial disfigurement. He hides behind masks but dreams of finding a dance partner. The biggest crowd-pleaser, “The Postman,” imagined a future in which a trash-sorting robot longs for the human connection it once found delivering handwritten letters as a postal worker.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-didnt-ruin-these-films-it-made-them-possible", "canonical_source": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/08/20/film/ai-film-festival-tokyo/", "published_at": "2026-08-19 16:55:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-19 17:54:04.187380+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["AI film festival", "Tokyo", "The Postman"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-didnt-ruin-these-films-it-made-them-possible", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-didnt-ruin-these-films-it-made-them-possible.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-didnt-ruin-these-films-it-made-them-possible.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-didnt-ruin-these-films-it-made-them-possible.jsonld"}}