Kagome

A five-year-old girl goes missing, and a quiet night-shift worker at a convenience store goes home to his perfect family, which turns out to be a houseful of mannequins. Sasha Fevralskaya made the under-three-minute short with Soul 2.0 and Soul Cinema for images, Seedream 5.0 Pro, and Seedance 2.5 and Kling 3 for motion, scored from Epidemic Sound's library under the contest rules. It won the $7,000 first prize in the Curious Refuge AI Horror Film Competition 2026, where the judges praised its cinematography and suspense, and its ending, and called it a film every AI filmmaker should study.