Florence AI Cinema Night closes the VIA 2026 season: a curated evening of AI cinema, talks and live exchange in the heart of Florence, built for makers and audiences alike.
The format
Unlike the festival in Rome or the build session in Turin, this is a single curated programme: films first, then the people who made them, then the room. Curation is the point. Not everything made this year deserves a screen, and a night that shows only the work worth arguing about is more useful to everyone than an open call with no filter.
Why a historic cinema matters
There is a reasonable objection to work made this way: that it is built for a phone screen and evaporates at scale. Putting it in a proper cinema, in Florence, is the most direct way to test that. Either the work holds at that size, in that room, with an audience — or it does not, and that is worth knowing too.
Who it is for
Filmmakers who want to see finished work rather than demos. Audiences curious about what has actually been made this year. Curators and institutions deciding how to treat this category. And anyone who wants to end the season in the same room as the people who spent it working.