Next AI Short-Drama Festival
The short-drama market is growing fast,and AI short dramas are at the heart of that change.
Not just quick thrills: AI short dramas with the craft and polish of K-contentare about to meet audiences around the world in earnest.
Here are the AI short dramas that open that chapter.
Overview
- Streaming
- Mon 7 Sep – Sat 19 Sep
- Voting
- Mon 7 Sep – Tue 15 Sep
- Awards
- Sat 19 Sep, 19:30, CGV Konkuk Univ.
- Host
- Impact Station · Coming Labs
- Organizer
- Next AI Content Festival Organizing Committee
Lineup
Kim SangminKANGHO MUJIN
Maker of AI short-form dramas including The Blade That Cuts Lost Souls, KANGHO MUJIN and Good Teacher, released on YouTube and elsewhere. The aim has been drama that does more than entertain: stories that look inward at what it is to be human. More and better work is on the way.
KANGHO MUJIN 강호무진
Joseon martial-arts fantasy
A swordsman who lost everything wakes up six months in the past. This time, before fate can draw its blade, he turns the martial world upside down first.
Kim HyeonseokA Moonless World
Creator behind the Solmu studio channel, maker of Return: 1592 and A Moonless World. Grand prize at Xconda; placed at the Unified Future AI Video Contest and the AIAA SHORT-FORM CHALLENGE; selected for NEXT AI Short-Drama.
A Moonless World 달이 사라진 세계
Isekai fantasy drama
Dohyeon is an ordinary young man haunted by the same nightmare every rainy night. One day he falls into a world he has never seen, and starts digging into its secrets.
Lala StudioStealing the Northern Grand Duke Beyond the Dark Clouds
AI-made series in romance fantasy and BL, including I Was the Mad Emperor's First Love (complete), Stealing the Northern Grand Duke Beyond the Dark Clouds (ongoing, nearing its finale) and Yaeum: Sounds of the Night (ongoing).
Stealing the Northern Grand Duke Beyond the Dark Clouds 먹구름 너머에 북부대공을 훔치다
Romance fantasy
A mysterious cross pendant joins the present to the past. Across that boundary Hazel meets Leon, Grand Duke of the North, and amid a vast conspiracy the two are drawn to each other as if by fate. An AI romance-fantasy drama that crosses time.
Park TaejuBLUE
Cinematographer on Netflix and Disney+ series, and an AI filmmaker. The AI short BLUE won at the K-Culture AI International Film Festival. A one-person production making AI films in the language of live-action cinematography.
BLUE 블루
Sci-fi
2092. Decades after the war between humans and machines scorched the world, the survivors of Zone 02 live buried in endless snow, inside a failing energy shield. Noah, a solitary hunter, goes out alone into the frozen ruins to hunt machines and bring back their power cores, the only fuel keeping the settlement alive. Each hunt buys a few days. Then he corners a machine wearing the face of his dead sister Ella, and the certainty that has kept him alive begins to crack.
Seol Sumin (Cheese AI)Doom of monsters
Wrote and directed My Friend's Little Brother and My Friend's Older Sister for the YouTube channel 'A-Plot'. Placed at the 2025 Gyeonggi Tourism International AI Video Contest. Now making My Junior and Doom of monsters for the YouTube channel 'Cheese AI'.
Doom of monsters 멸괴
Fantasy
In a world where monsters and spiritual disasters have become real, evil spirits threaten everything. Exorcists with different powers and different pasts take on one strange case after another, closing in on the group behind it all, the 'Dokkaebi', and the vast secret they keep.
Son Eunjeong (Fiction Archive)Embracing the Broken Predator
A creator using AI to make romance dramas built on emotion and story. Best known for 「Embracing the Broken Predator」.
Embracing the Broken Predator 부서진 포식자를 안고
Romance fantasy
Crown Prince Cedric enters an arranged marriage with Ellien, and through her comes to understand what love and family mean. A romance fantasy.
Studio StandKorean Demon Hunter
A writer–director outfit that produces corporate films alongside its own original series. Long-form credits include the Coupang Play documentary Future Play: The Documentary, the SBS special documentary After the Dollar and the Beglue short-form drama Is My Boyfriend a Psychopath?; the Sulwhasoo film Always. Ever. Together. won gold at the 2025 Korea Digital Advertising Awards.
Korean Demon Hunter 허주 : 개문의 장
Occult
Myeongjin is a gifted exorcist who drives an imported car and wears his leather jacket like a cape. Chasing off ghosts is routine for him, until the day a request arrives carrying an energy he has never felt before. As his face hardens, something unimaginably powerful begins to show itself.
OutintroMy Ex Came Back Famous · Love on the Lake
A creator who directs and produces AI-based romance stories on film. Cinematic images and storytelling carry the feelings and relationships of the characters.
My Ex Came Back Famous 첫사랑이 톱스타가 되어 돌아왔다
Romance
"The ex who ghosted me ten years ago just walked onto my set as a superstar…" Kim Seon is an ad-agency producer grinding through a brutal daily life. Her first love, the ex who vanished without a word and left nothing but resentment, is now a top star, standing in front of her as the lead model on her own shoot. "Been a while. Have you eaten?" A nerve-racking, breathless reunion with an ex who has the gall to act like an old friend.
Love on the Lake 영애는 호수에 사랑을 띄워
Romance
Lady Ally has spent her life boxed in by an arranged marriage and a fate decided for her. A chance meeting with Callum by the lake is where she first begins to choose her own life, and her own love.
YEON:JAKMy Exquisite Ruin
An AI content creator who planned and produced My Exquisite Ruin and The Grand Duchess Has Two Faces, among others. Builds original, story- and character-driven work on generative AI, ranging from romance fantasy to contemporary drama, and handles the whole process personally, from planning and direction to post-production, to make serialized content with real narrative continuity.
My Exquisite Ruin 찬란한 불행에게
Romance fantasy
On the ashes my family's fall left behind, he appeared in the shape of the most dazzling salvation. The moment I saw him, I knew: he would destroy me in the most elegant way there is. My radiant savior, Caius. The contract he held out was a saving hand and the most finely made trap ever set around my throat. When his cold gold eyes savoured my despair, I stepped, willingly, into the paradise he had planned. He was the one who came for me, the most perfect misfortune. An arrogant sovereign, a record of beautiful destruction.
Lee HyeonjeongCherry On The Apple Tree
A producer and writer who has developed and written across film, television and web content, and has lately extended into short dramas made with generative AI.
Cherry On The Apple Tree 사과나무에 체리
Romance
In 2008, a high-school girl receives a letter from her 2026 self: she let her first love slip away. A teen romance about setting out to find the first love that could change the future.
Cho Heesu / Ppabam FilmBECOMING MY BIAS
Creator who planned and directed the AI short drama BECOMING MY BIAS. Uses AI to make drama in which the characters and the story are what count.
BECOMING MY BIAS 최애의 멤버가 되었다
Fantasy drama
An ordinary high-schooler who spends her days cheering on her favorite idol wakes up one morning as a member of his group.
Chaos LordChaos Lord
An everyday person taking a first shot at AI short dramas on YouTube.
Chaos Lord 카오스로드
Game fantasy
After losing his first love to a tragic accident in the real world, Kang Seungho logs into 'C.A.D', the first true virtual-reality game, and with a rare instinct and sheer stubbornness awakens as an 'Elemental Knight', an SSS-rank hidden class held by less than 1% of players worldwide. A sci-fi fantasy action story of coming into one's own.
Kido & MuSave the GODD
A team of director Kido and writer Mu. The writer has scripted six short dramas and published an anthology of short stories; the director's work, including Cough Cough, Color, won Best Director at the Daedanhan Short Film Festival.
Save the GODD 세이브 더 고드
Game fantasy
Juha, a bullied high-schooler, has one refuge, the game Daltale, and it shuts down in a day. With Godd, an old in-game friend, Juha charges into the final boss fight to save a world that is about to disappear.
PanmongJoseon Fantasy
A one-person AI maker who runs the YouTube channel [Fantasy_Mong]. A lover of myth and fantasy worlds. Here, Western fantasy is fused with the Joseon dynasty.
Joseon Fantasy 조선 판타지
Fantasy
The greedy dragon Fafnir tears open a rift joining the Joseon era to a fantasy realm. An action fusion-fantasy in which Gangryong and Dani stand against the monsters pouring through.