A city with cinematic gravity
Québec City is one of North America’s most visually distinct urban environments. Old Québec, the river, the ramparts, winter light, Parliament Hill, historic neighbourhoods and contemporary cultural venues create a natural stage for screen imagination. For an AI cinema festival, that matters: the strongest generated images still need taste, atmosphere and context.
The festival positions Québec City as a place where AI storytelling can be discussed with seriousness. Not as a shortcut. Not as a novelty. As a craft question: how do writers, directors, editors, performers, designers and technologists keep the human signal alive inside new tools?
French-first, bilingual by design
The Québec edition is built around French-language cultural confidence with full English access for international creators. That bilingual structure is not cosmetic. It reflects the way future cinema will travel: across languages, workflows, accents, subtitles, voices and communities.
Local production sense
Québec City already supports film activity through municipal facilitation and Québec’s broader production ecosystem. The festival’s role is to add a focused conversation on generative cinema, responsible tools, human authorship and the next grammar of moving images.
Submit to the Québec City edition
Hybrid human + AI films and fully AI works are welcome for consideration.
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