# 2222

AI-made. Made with AI, as its festival says: “The 2026 edition of the Artefact AI Film Festival — an international competition for short films made with generative AI, organised by Artefact with mk2.” ([its page](https://artefact-ai-film-festival.com/), read 2026-11-12).

By Gulnaz Galimullina, as [Artefact AI Film Festival](https://artefact-ai-film-festival.com/gallery) names them.

In the year 2222, in a world of total digital surveillance, a young man named Ainur lives alone in his apartment. His only friend is a sweet little robot named Yuki. When he receives the belongings of his late mother, Ainur finds among them an ancient scroll — a shezhire, his family's two-hundred-year-old lineage record. Using an AI system, he begins reconstructing his ancestors' lost memories: a father, a mother, a childhood from the distant past. But the memories turn out not to be real — they were generated two hundred years ago by his biological parents, so that he would one day know his roots. A trace left on the generation file leads Ainur to Bulat, a hacker who decodes old archives. With Bulat's help, Ainur learns how he was created, and at what cost he earned the right to memory — and to a name.

Plays in YouTube's player, on YouTube, by the link its maker gave the festival: [watch it there](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNzIZzCahJU).