Desire and disgust are two of cinema’s most powerful opposing forces. Desire draws us toward what is wanted but not yet attained, whether love, intimacy, power, freedom, transformation, or another imagined life. Disgust pushes them away from what feels disturbing, corrupt, threatening, or intolerable.

This screening session at the 2026 Human vs. AI Film Premiere brings together Nominated Films, Official Selections, and Notable Selections that explore how filmmakers shape longing, attraction, aspiration, discomfort, repulsion, and unresolved tension. Through fantasy, sensuality, ambition, temptation, horror, revulsion, and moral conflict, the films reveal how cinema can sustain emotional momentum by making audiences crave what remains out of reach or recoil from what confronts them.

Together, the program invites viewers to consider the fragile boundary between attraction and rejection and how human and machine creativity may differ or overlap in expressing yearning, fantasy, aversion, and the contrasting emotional power of desire and disgust.

The film lineup and individual titles will be announced in early September, following the conclusion of the jury’s evaluation for the 2026 Human vs. AI Film Festival. Bringing together film industry professionals, generative AI experts, and film scholars from around the world, the festival is a truly international effort, and a uniquely timely cinematic experiment exploring the evolving relationship between human creativity and generative AI.