AFTER THE DOOR CLOSES
From Artefact AI Film Festival, on YouTube, by the link its maker gave the festival
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.” AI-made films · What this means · Its maker can have it taken off.
By Yevheniya Vlasenko, as its festival's page names them. This site's record of that page; the title and description are as the page gives them.
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About this film
In the seconds of her nineteenth birthday, a young girl discovers that growing up is not about an open door, but about the number of steps she can take before it closes.
At the edge of a shattered reality, where grief meets bewilderment and everything familiar has disappeared, an unexpected glimmer of hope begins to emerge. Somewhere beyond human understanding, a quiet decision has already been made—one that may change what remains of her future.
AFTER THE DOOR CLOSES is a story of loss, of a world that can change beyond recognition in a single moment, and of the fragile space between oblivion and hope.
When everything familiar is gone and no answers remain, can hope still find a way to reach us?
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