Lily

Lily is a nine-minute French-language short film by the Tunisian graphic designer and filmmaker Zoubeir Jlassi (also written Zoubeir ElJlassi). It was posted in full on his YouTube channel on 10 January 2026, a few days after it won.

It won the inaugural Global AI Film Award, a $1 million prize presented at the 1 Billion Followers Summit in Dubai in January 2026 and offered by the summit with Google. Google said the award drew 3,500 entries. A Google MENA post names the jury's praise for how Jlassi blended human emotion with technology and for using the tools in service of a moving narrative. Lily was one of five finalists, with The Translator, Portrait No. 72, Cats Like Warmth and HEAL.

Google's account of the production credits its own tools: Veo for the film's gloomy look, Flow for control over scenes and styles so that the characters conveyed empathy, and Gemini from storyboarding to deciding the characters' look and feel. Arab News reports the film was made entirely with Google's generative AI tools, including Gemini, Veo 3, Imagen and Flow. Gulf News says the competition required films to use at least 70 percent Google generative AI tools, checked with AI-based assessment.

The press reports that Jlassi named the film after his daughter, who inspired the story. Coverage also describes his earlier AI short A Breath Apart, which screened at festivals. Pages found do not name a cast, voice performers or composer.