1 film
2026
Higgsfield AI (dir. Aitore Zholdaskali)
A 95-minute action fantasy: four street thieves pull a heist, an ancient artifact drops one of them through a portal into the underworld, and the rest team with a covert military unit to go get her — a chase that runs through a Tibetan temple and feudal Japan. Directed by Aitore Zholdaskali, co-written with Adilkhan Yerzhanov. The production is the interesting document. Fifteen people, fourteen days, $500,000 — of which roughly 80% went to compute, not crew. It was built on Higgsfield's own Soul Cinema and Soul Cast products plus Seedance 2.0, generating and refining fifteen-second clips with prompts that averaged around three thousand words each, which is the part worth sitting with: holding a character's face steady across 95 minutes currently costs you an essay per shot. On August 4 Higgsfield open-sourced the whole thing — every prompt, character model, asset, and reference, free. That is a genuinely unusual act of disclosure in a field where workflow secrecy is the norm, and it is more valuable to other filmmakers than the film itself. Two claims around it don't survive a check. The banner is "World's First Ever AI Feature Film," which isn't true and wasn't true in 2024; the defensible version, which Higgsfield's own press used elsewhere, is the first feature made entirely on the Higgsfield platform. And the Cannes framing — the CEO wrote that it "premiered in Cannes" — describes a private industry preview on the Vieux Port on May 16 and a screening at the Cinéma Olympia, a working commercial cinema, on May 21. The Festival de Cannes publicly disputed coverage calling it a festival debut, confirming it was never in the Official Selection and had been shown at a third-party industry event during festival week. In Cannes, not at Cannes.