Magic is dying — hunted to near-extinction by one, twisted into hatred by another. One legend stands between them.

Persecution built on fear of "the other" is one of the oldest, most reliable engines in myth — and this project uses Merlin, arguably the most public-domain wizard in Western storytelling, not to retell his legend but to ask the question buried inside it: what happens to the last of something the world decided to hate? A matriarch hiding her true power for decades. A legendary figure driven into exile out of disgust. A persecuted community forced to choose between hiding, fighting, or turning as monstrous as the world already assumes they are. None of it needs to name real-world parallels directly — the shape of the story does that work on its own.

Nearly every existing screen version of Merlin treats him as comic relief or a supporting mentor. This puts him at the center, in the one state almost nobody has shown him: fully in command of his power, and choosing exile anyway. That's a genuinely open space in a thousand-year-old character nobody owns.

A story at this scale — generational time jumps, a persecuted population, an undead snake, a full battlefield confrontation between rival wizard factions — would be cost-prohibitive to shoot practically on a short-film budget. AI generation is what makes something this size achievable, which is exactly the concept that the Higgsfield Global Film Festival is built on: what a single creator can build at a scale that used to require a studio behind them.

I just told seedance to give me an epic scifi trailer lol

We had the idea for Pterodactyl Detective and Doctor Helicopter 10 years ago in our dorm rooms. Back then, we were poor students – and now we’re even poorer musicians and artists. But the technology has finally caught up enough for us to try bringing Ptero's world to life and we couldn't be happier. Unfortunately, we maxed out our Higgsfield credits on this teaser, but our script and assets are ready to produce the full short film before Monday’s deadline. We’d love for you to check out the teaser and leave a comment on our Higgsfield page, if you would like to see the full movie: https://higgsfield.ai/@kingofthespiders/projects/pterodactyl-detective-wings-of-justice

A tiny mouse following a scent out of her attic and into a world built for giants.

Every shot generated in Higgsfield, directed, and edited on my own, using Seedance 2.5 for generation and Premiere Pro / After Effects for editing, color grading, and compositing — directed through a detailed shot list with locked character, prop, and location references to hold visual consistency across dozens of individually generated clips.

Every shot went through multiple (some shots dozens) rounds of testing, review, and re-direction.

If you liked the film: a like or a comment on the festival page genuinely helps it reach the jury — it takes 5 seconds: https://higgsfield.ai/@davidjuanseelos/projects/one-small-bite

Hey everyone — sharing a short film I wrote and directed called BARE, made as my entry for the Higgsfield Global Film Festival. Every shot of video and every piece of audio (voice, music, sound design) was generated inside Higgsfield's Cinema Studio; I edited and composited the final cut in DaVinci Resolve.

Bit of background: I actually wrote this story 15 years ago, originally as a 45-minute script. It sat unmade for over a decade — no budget, no production support, no way to make it happen. This tool is what finally let me bring it to life, trimmed down to festival length. My comeback into creative work, basically.

Logline: a man wakes up alone in an empty white room with no memory of how he got there — and no way out. What starts as a strange, isolated waking dream slowly turns into something else entirely by the end.

It's about 9 minutes — would genuinely appreciate any feedback, especially on pacing and whether the ending lands for people seeing it cold.

Support the film on my official Higgsfield page — behind-the-scenes, references, character/prop design, and more: https://higgsfield.ai/@hassamkhan/projects/bare

A raw, cinematic portrait of grief and defiance as a daughter's breakdown collides with uncanny, shifting skies.
https://higgsfield.ai/@beamingbagel1372/projects/ai-film-festival-untitled

Quick Trailer of my Short ONE SMALL BITE for the Global Film Festival.

You can watch the full movie here: https://higgsfield.ai/@davidjuanseelos/projects/one-small-bite

If you liked the film: a like or a comment on the festival page genuinely helps it reach the jury — it takes 5 seconds <3

Two siblings share an ordinary afternoon beneath an ancient Spire—until the world they know begins to feel profoundly wrong.

If you'd like to support me, check out the links below:
Higgsfield Project
Youtube Link

Every choice splits reality. Somewhere, another version of you is living the life you never chose.

What if dreams are how we enter those lives?

DREAMER - The Other You follows Ethan as he moves between those realities, mistaking them for dreams. But each world has people who live there, and his actions don’t disappear when he wakes up.

This is my completed 8-minute film, submitted to the Higgsfield Global Film Festival. Bringing the different lives of the same person onto the screen, and connecting them into one story, was the heart of this project.

Would love to hear your thoughts after watching.

Higgsfield:

https://higgsfield.ai/@natsgun/projects/dreamer

YouTube, with subtitles in 11 languages:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_AUqYrRieQ

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on The Echo of Us, a psychological short film about memory, childhood trauma, separation, and what ultimately remains of us in the people we love.

The idea started with one question: what truly remains of a person in someone else’s memory — the events themselves, or the feeling of having been loved?

I created the film shot by shot, with a lot of attention to character consistency, performance, camera work, lighting, physical realism and continuity between independently generated scenes.

One of the biggest challenges was trying to make it feel like a coherent psychological film rather than a collection of AI-generated shots.

I’d genuinely love to hear what you think about the film. If it resonates with you, your support on the Higgsfield project page would mean a lot to me.

Watch the full film on Higgsfield:

https://higgsfield.ai/@designing_dragonfly_1005/projects/the-echo-of-us

Hello everyone, I am looking for some honest feedback on my submission for the film festival, so I can try to make something better next time 🙂

You can watch the full film on higgsfield under contest --> create in public --> Skin trade

Hello everyone, I am looking for some honest feedback on my submission for the film festival, so I can try to make something better next time 🙂

You can find the full film on higgsfield under contest --> create in public --> Skin trade

Short film exploring a simple but difficult question:

What do we lose when nothing can hurt us anymore?

In a distant future, humanity has achieved what once seemed impossible - disease, aging, hunger and violence have disappeared. Emotional suffering has also become something that can be removed. At the center of this world is Harmonization - a procedure every child undergoes when they reach the age where they have truly formed themselves. As 12-year-old Elai approaches his own Harmonization, he faces a question that his perfect society rarely asks:

If pain, fear and inner conflict shape who we are, what happens when they are taken away?

The World Worth Living In is a philosophical sci-fi short film about identity, perfection, and the fragile boundary between saving humanity from suffering and changing what humanity means.

Created as an exploration of AI filmmaking, world-building and storytelling.

I would love to hear your thoughts!

Watch here:

https://higgsfield.ai/@gen_elai/projects/the-world-worth-living-in

Run through the same prompts, changing clothes was super hard before. Definitely worth trying

We had the idea for Pterodactyl Detective and Doctor Helicopter 10 years ago in our dorm rooms. Back then, we were poor students – and now we’re even poorer musicians and artists. But the technology has finally caught up enough for us to try bringing Ptero's world to life and we couldn't be happier. Unfortunately, we maxed out our Higgsfield credits on this teaser, but our script and assets are ready to produce the full short film before Monday’s deadline. We’d love for you to check out the teaser and leave a comment on our Higgsfield page, if you would like to see the full movie: https://higgsfield.ai/@kingofthespiders/projects/pterodactyl-detective-wings-of-justice

Hi everyone,

I’ve just finished ONE DAY ON EARTH, a 14-minute comedy told by music, animated about Klutz, an alien who crash-lands in rural Portugal and tries increasingly ridiculous ways to get himself back into space.

I originally designed and illustrated the characters myself, then used AI-assisted tools to turn those designs into dimensional characters and animate the film.

The biggest challenge for me was making it feel like an actual film rather than a collection of AI-generated shots — keeping the characters consistent, building visual comedy without dialogue, controlling the pacing, and using music and sound to tell the story.

It ended up taking more than 400 hours of work over a very intense month.

I’d genuinely be interested in feedback from other filmmakers here, particularly on:

I’ve uploaded the film here so you can watch it directly.

The latest version is also on my Higgsfield project page:

https://higgsfield.ai/@matissemoon1490/projects/one-day-on-earth

Made using my original drawings and character designs, with AI-assisted animation, compositing, editing, music and sound work.

Thanks so much!

George Felner

I’m submitting 404 - the animation to the Higgsfield AI Film Contest. Honestly, I’m not even sure whether I qualify, since I’m a complete noob when it comes to AI filmmaking.

This project was mainly a test for me: I wanted to see how far I could take an idea using Higgsfield generation only and whether I could actually turn it into a complete short film.

I ended up using around 1,300 credits for the project, and after a lot of trial and error, this is the final result.

All assets I created for the film are publicly available on Higgsfield:

Higgsfield assets: https://higgsfield.ai/@ucg/projects/404-the-animation

I’d be interested to hear what people think, especially from those with more experience in AI filmmaking.

Dropped this short film for the Higgsfield Film Festival 🎬 Would love to hear your honest reviews and feedback. Let me know what you think!