We Are Human Festival program
A day of screenings, conversations and encounters dedicated to films exploring artificial intelligence and human rights
22 films from the Official Selection · 4 major conversations · 2 workshop-debates · Awards night
Key Information
November 24, 2026 at the Forum des images, official partner, in Paris · Free admission · Registration required
We Are Human Festival offers a program bringing together films, artists, professionals, researchers and audiences around the challenges of artificial intelligence, audiovisual creation and human rights. It places people at the center of the conversation: not to be for or against AI, but to question what we want to preserve, pass on and build as these technologies transform our images, our stories and the ways we create.
The Major Conversations · 2:15 PM to 7:00 PM
Inside the Mind of Machines · 2:15 PM to 3:15 PM
How do artificial intelligence systems learn to generate images? What data do they use, with what biases and whose consent?
Moving beyond fears that "AI will replace us," researchers, tech industry experts and critical voices will draw on demonstrations and real-world cases to explore what machines are already doing to our images, our data and our memory. Because behind the technology lie profoundly human choices: what data do we use, what representations do we reproduce, and what values do we pass on to machines?
Speakers to be announced soon. Free admission · Registration required · Limited capacity.
The Battle for Our Imaginations · 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Media & narratives, the writers’ room, the machine lab: when machines enter the storytelling process, who still gets to tell the story of our world?
Drawing on real experiences of creation and production, authors, media professionals, platforms and critical voices will confront their practices: what can we create with AI? Where should we draw the line? How should authors be credited, compensated and protected? Beyond the technology, another battle is being fought: the battle for our imaginations.
Speakers to be announced soon. Free admission · Registration required · Limited capacity.
Creating with the "Monster"? · 4:45 PM to 5:45 PM
If the machine creates, what remains? Prometheus, Frankenstein, the Golem…
Humanity has always imagined creatures capable of escaping our control. But what happens when our creation begins to create too? Artists, researchers and authors bring their work and practices face to face with the same question: what becomes of the artist when the machine enters the studio? Not a symposium about AI: works on screen, a thesis, contradictions, and creators responding through their own practice.
Speakers to be announced soon. Free admission · Registration required · Limited capacity.
Artificial Powers · 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Geopolitics & Human Rights
Election deepfakes, AI-generated images of war, manipulated archives, cultural influence: artificial intelligence has become a new instrument of power.
Drawing on real-world cases, researchers, international institutions and artists examine the power held by those who build the models and shape the narratives. Which rights do we want to make non-negotiable when images themselves can no longer necessarily be considered evidence? Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be our compass.
Speakers to be announced soon. Free admission · Registration required · Limited capacity.
Workshops & Debates · 2:00 PM to 4:15 PM
From 2:00 PM to 4:15 PM, the workshops invite audiences to take part: to exchange ideas, experiment and create together with AI.
Does AI Have the Same Borders for Everyone? · 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Who hosts the data centers? Who provides the water, energy and minerals they require? Who actually has access to these tools? A workshop and debate exploring inequalities in access to AI and how its material and energy costs are distributed around the world, in direct dialogue with Article 1.
Free admission · Registration required · Limited capacity.
Creating an Ethical Fresco · 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM
Starting from Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, participants will collectively build a prompt and then create an animation together. A way not simply to talk about ethics, but to put it into practice at the very heart of the creative process with AI.
Free admission · Registration required · Limited capacity. Workshop held in English.
Official Selection · 22 films from 20 countries
One screening · 4:45 PM to 7:00 PM
Chosen from more than 2,100 films received from over 140 countries, the 22 films in the Official Selection each explore, in their own way, what it means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence. This first edition takes Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as its compass: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." Fiction, documentaries, experimental works: a journey through the perspectives of creators from around the world, brought together in a single screening ahead of the awards ceremony.
Free admission · Registration required · Limited capacity.
Awards Ceremony · 7:30 PM to 9:15 PM
Films · Jury · Awards
The highlight of this first edition. At the Forum des images, We Are Human brings together the selected films, creators from around the world and the jury for an evening of screenings and encounters around the question running through the entire festival: what does it mean to be human in the age of artificial intelligence? The jury will honor the works that combine artistic commitment with a perspective on the world through the lens of human rights.
Three awards will be presented by the jury
· Grand Prix · €5,000
· Best Screenplay Award · €3,000
· Ethics Award · €2,000
Free admission · Registration required · Limited capacity.
An International Journey
December 2026 → March 2027
After Paris, We Are Human sets out to meet the world. In each partner city, the films are screened and followed by a local discussion led by the teams on site, around an issue specific to each city.
· São Paulo · 10 December 2026
Cultural dynamics, South America
· New York · 17 December 2026
International visibility and creative industries
· Nairobi · 20 January 2027
African Voices, Innovation and Emerging Technologies
· Johannesburg · 28 January 2027
African and post-colonial perspectives
· Mumbai · 26 to 28 February 2027
Digital Creativity and Emerging Narratives
· Quito · 15 to 16 March 2027
Cultural Sovereignty and Media Governance
· Geneva · March 2027
Human rights and international institutions
As they travel from city to city, the works and ideas place the festival within a global movement around human rights and artificial intelligence. This first edition opens a long-term ambition: 30 editions to explore, one by one, the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the age of AI.
