Astana AI Film Festival: AI-use rules

The rules of the Astana AI Film Festival on what the rules ask of AI use: generative AI must be integral, not only effects or upscaling. From 1 source page, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.

Generative AI must be integral to creation — not only VFX or upscaling.

Astana AI Film Festival, home page

• Rules of admission
  Generative AI must be integral, not only effects or upscalingAstana AI Film Festival, home page / recorded 2026-09-25

1Festivals with the same reading

Artefact AI Film Festival, Bochnia International AI Film Festival and World AI Film Festival have this reading, “a set minimum of AI use”: 4 festivals in all.

Rules change between editions; check the organiser's page before entering.

2What the rule means for an entrant

This is the rule that decides eligibility first. A film finished with conventional footage and a few generated shots fits a festival that asks for any AI use, but not one that asks for AI in every phase of production or for a film made on one platform.

Inclusion rule. Every festival on the register, with or without a detailed page on this rule. Order. Alphabetical by festival name.

3Producing the entry with AI

For an entrant reading “Astana AI Film Festival”, this is what SceneMixer publishes about the film its pipeline hands over:

SceneMixer generates each character once as a full-body reference sheet — 9:16, plain background, directional key light, identity features written before any technical instruction — and then attaches crops of that sheet to every shot the character appears in.

SceneMixer, AI Character Sheet Generator (read 2026-10-13)

The lines are re-heard and written in the language your project is set to, and the finished episode is spoken by the voices attached to your own characters.

SceneMixer, How to Remake a Video with AI — “Can I remake something in a different language?” (read 2026-10-13)

4More on this rule

• Astana AI Film Festival, all eight rules
• What the rules ask of AI at every festival
• Artefact AI Film Festival on AI-use rules
• Bochnia International AI Film Festival on AI-use rules