Memory of Princess Mumbi was made using AI and is screening at the London Film Festival 2025

Amid waves of criticism against AI, one film at London Film Festival 2025 has been proudly harnessing artificial intelligence.

Memory of Princess Mumbi is set in a retro-futuristic Africa in 2093, and much of the landscapes and scenic shots have been developed using AI. Although the filmmaker Damien Hauser’s intentions were to “make a movie that AI could never make,” he told Variety.

Following a filmmaker called Kuve, the film is set in the fictional kingdom of Umata following a war. Keen to document the post-war landscape, Kuve sets about making an entire movie without using AI (the assumption is that by 2093 artificial intelligence will be way more embedded in film-making than it already is).

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