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Runway AIF Community Screening

16 July 2026 · IL KINO, Berlin-Neukölln
Ben Chimoy welcoming a full house at IL KINO

AI Filmmakers Berlin just hosted Runway’s first community AIF screening.

Last Thursday, we teamed up with Runway to bring the winning films from this year’s AI Festival to IL KINO, fresh from their gala premieres in NYC and LA.

All 50 seats were taken, people were standing at the back. And honestly, the biggest surprise was not the full room. It was the films. From Grand Prix winner A Face Only a Mother Could Love to films from Korea, Kenya and beyond, each one had its own voice and emotional world.

Before the screening, Runway co-founder Cristóbal Valenzuela shared a message with the Berlin audience: focus on the stories, not the technology.

It was the right way to watch.

And the best part came afterwards. Filmmakers, artists and technologists stayed outside talking long after the final film ended.

A big thank you to Timmy Highley and the Runway team for trusting us to kick this off, to IL KINO for hosting us, and to Alexander Wüst and Ludwig Kienle, who helped make the evening happen.

More soon.

Gallery

Audience in the cinema seats at IL KINO before the screening
On the big screen at IL KINO
Guests outside IL KINO after the screening
Ben Chimoy with guests in the IL KINO bar
The crowd gathering on the street outside IL KINO
Guests sitting outside the IL KINO bar
Ben Chimoy with a guest outside IL KINO
Guests in the IL KINO foyer

The night in ink

The crowd in front of IL KINO, captured in a quick ink sketch on the night of the screening.

Ink sketch of the crowd in front of IL KINO
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Founder, AI Filmmakers Berlin