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Artificial

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An undercover cop is assigned to monitor a humanoid robot, but an unexpected bond over art leads to a final task: creating a painting.

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The full list for this film
  • Competitioncloses in 3 days · 13 November 2026

    Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize (Glasgow Short Film Festival)

    Glasgow, Scotland · not stated on this page; apply through the Glasgow Film website

    checked 28 Oct 2026 · source
  • Festivalcloses in 14 days · 24 November 2026

    Manchester Film Festival

    Manchester · Shorts US$70 until 27 October then US$75 (North West shorts US$65 then US$70); features US$97.50 then US$99.50 · premiere required

    checked 27 Sept 2026 · source
  • Festivalcloses in 17 days · 27 November 2026

    Open City Documentary Festival

    London · Entry fee via FilmFreeway; selected works under 40 minutes get a £70 screening fee

    checked 27 Sept 2026 · source
  • CompetitionFree to entercloses in 35 days · 15 December 2026

    Sony Future Filmmaker Awards

    International; shortlist flown to Sony Pictures Studios, California · Free to enter · up to 20 min

    checked 27 Sept 2026 · source

Filtered by the film's length and ordered by deadline; every row carries the date we checked it and where. The film is public here, so the ones that want a premiere are marked. The festival plan says how to run the year.

The scorecard

A title about art and artifice, glimpsed only through faces and a wooden mannequin hand frame, story unseen.

2.7of 5
  • Storynot read

    Not read: no synopsis or transcript, so what is wanted and what turns was not seen.

  • Pictureworks

    Close, warm-lit portraits with a clean shallow-focus look; the mannequin-hand framing shot shows a deliberate compositional idea.

  • Wordsnot read

    Not read: no caption transcript, so dialogue or narration was not seen.

  • Worldgetting there

    Frames show only two interiors and two faces; too little is visible to judge whether the wider world convinces.

  • Voiceworks

    The hand-frame-around-the-eye shot suggests a specific idea about looking and artifice, though it is only one image to judge by.

I read four still frames and the title card only; no synopsis and no caption transcript were available, so story and words are unscored. Read 10 November 2026. How the scorecard works