# POSTMAN

- Date: 2026-03-13
- Type: film
- Credit: YUUUKI
- Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
- Artists: [YUUUKI](https://aifilmhistory.org/artist/yuuuki)
- Award: Merit — Runway AIFF 2026 · Jury Special Prize, Best AI Anime — WAIFF 2026 — Runway AI Film Festival 2026 · World AI Film Festival 2026
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eiwtCpNo2c
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/postman-yuuuki

In a near future where nobody writes letters anymore, a battered robot that once delivered them now sorts trash, until it finds an old letter meant for the bin and sets out to deliver it, rediscovering feelings efficiency can't measure. A wordless animated short in a mix of comic-book and anime styles from YUUUKI of Japan's PYRAMID AI. It won a Jury Special Prize for AI anime at the World AI Film Festival in Kyoto in March 2026, then a Merit award at [Runway's 2026 AI Festival](https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/aiff-2026), where Bloomberg called it the biggest crowd-pleaser of the Tokyo screening.

Links:
- POSTMAN on WAIFF Japan's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oESR5L9W2kc
- POSTMAN in Curious Refuge's AI Film Gallery: https://curiousrefuge.com/ai-film-gallery/postman-ai-short-animated-film

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/postman-yuuuki
Era: Early 2026 · The Shakeout
Last updated: 2026-10-19