Nominees September 2026

Cover — September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes
September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes — Best AI Feature Script: COASTLINE (Talya Lotan), Glass Harbor (Mara Ellison), THE TWO CORNERS (Mike Owens), WHAT WE ARE (Eric Baker)
September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes — Best AI Short Script: A Small Place to Wait (Marta Figueiredo), The Bicycle Lantern (Lin Pei-shan), The Fourth Call (Jordan Reyes), The Last Parcel (Ethan Clarke)
September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes — Best AI Original Script: A Season of Ash (Defne Arslan), THE TWO CORNERS (Mike Owens)
September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes — Best Human-AI Collaboration: The Last Telegraph (Élise Moreau), The Letters from Valparaíso (Camila Rojas)
September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes — Best AI Documentary Script: Letters to the River (Amina Otieno), The City That Learned to Swim (Noor de Vries), When the Ice Opens (Owen Kwan)
September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes — Best AI True Story Script: Borrowed Rooms (Nadia Whitcombe), The Early Way (Talya Lotan), THE TWO CORNERS (Mike Owens)
September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes — Best AI Experimental Script: A Manual for Disappearing (Giulia Bellini), Rooms for a Future Self (Lena Falk), The Shape of an Echo (Min-jun Lee)
September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes — Best AI Series Script: AURA (Cláudio Gilberto Godinho), Night Ferry (Luiza Valença), Second Harvest (Hannah Okafor), The Winter Dispatch (Aino Lehtinen)
September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes — Best AI TV Pilot Script: After the Sirens (Mateo Ibarra), County Line (Dorian Price), The Atlas Desk (Riya Malhotra)
September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes — Best First-Time AI Screenwriter: THE TWO CORNERS (Mike Owens), The Museum of Elsewhere (Mila van Dijk), Before the Table Clears (Tomi Adebayo)
September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes — Best Emerging AI Screenwriter: The Road Between Signals (Aoife Brennan), THE TWO CORNERS (Mike Owens), The Museum of Elsewhere (Mila van Dijk)
September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes — Best AI Drama Script: The Day We Stayed (Lucía Serrano), The Paper Garden (Louise Verhaegen), The Shape of Leaving (Naledi Maseko)
September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes — Best AI Comedy Script: Almost Famous in Omaha (Clara Bennett), The Apology Department (Avery Chen)
September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes — Best AI Horror Script: A House Without Mirrors (Irina Popescu), The Quiet Floor (Seo-yeon Park)
September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes — Best AI Sci-Fi Script: After the Last Satellite (Sora Nishimura), The Gravity Orchard (Priya Desai), The Tidal Archive (Elliot Harper)
September 2026 nominees of the World AI Script Festival in Cannes — Best AI Fantasy Script: The Glass Cartographer (Inés Valcárcel), The Library of First Rain (Meera Kapoor), The Valley of Small Gods (Kojo Mensah)