- AIPopDB score
- 8/100
- Format
- Short film
- Year
- 2026
- Views
- 200
Synopsis
Aya's Best Day is presented as a mockumentary about growing up, memory and friendship. Its own description frames the film around one good day in a girl's life, and the question of how a person can hold on to a single good day when everything else is bound to pass.
The story is set against a technological future, but the description says that future is only the backdrop: the film is meant to be a very human story rather than a story about technology. The sources available give no plot beyond this, so the characters and the events of the day are not described here.
Last Updated 16 October 2026
About the Show
Aya's Best Day is a 14-minute AI short film by Madi Zhagi, a Kazakhstan-based film director and self-described AI creator. It was uploaded to the director's YouTube channel on 7 October 2026, where the video is titled "Aya's best day | AI short film" and the film is described as a mockumentary.
The film was a finalist in the main thematic programme of the first Astana AI Film Festival, called The Future Worth Living In, which had ten final works. The festival, which a Kazakh news report calls the largest in the world for films made with artificial intelligence, drew 8,067 applications from 125 countries, and 25 works were chosen for the final programme. Finalists' films were screened at the Chaplin cinema in the MEGA Silk Way mall in Astana on 2 and 3 October 2026, and winners were announced on 3 October. The coverage read does not list an award for this film.
The pages read do not name the AI models, tools or workflow used, or say which parts were human work. The YouTube channel has one video and 11 subscribers at the time of reading.
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Fun Facts
- Festival selection
- One of ten final works in the main programme The Future Worth Living In at the first Astana AI Film Festival, chosen from 8,067 applications.
- Source: qumash.kz
- Festival screening
- Finalists' films were shown on the big screen of the Chaplin cinema in Astana on 2 and 3 October 2026.
- Source: qumash.kz
Credits
- Director
- Madi Zhagi
Cast & Crew
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