Aurelia : Golden Fox Princess
Winner — Best Animation
Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival 2026 (Greece)
Winner— Best Debut Animation Special Jury Awards
Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival 2026 (Greece)
Winner — Best Animation Short Film
Florence Independent Cinema International Film Festival 2026 (Italy)
Winner — Best Short Film, MEI International Film Festival 2026 (India)
Winner — Best Animated Short Film, Thilsri International Film Festival 2026 (India)
Winner — Best Director / Short Film, Thilsri International Film Festival 2026 (India)
Finalist – Africa AI Creativity Week & Awards (Morocco)
Finalist — Seoul International AI Film Festival 2026 (SIAFF), (South Korea)
Semi-Finalist — Stockholm City Film Festival 2026 (Sweden)
Nominee — Digital Griffix Film Awards 2026 (Canada)
Official Selection — Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival 2026 (Japan)
Official Selection — Mpumalanga International Film Festival 2026 (South Africa)
Official Selection — Short Way International Short Film Festival 2026 (Brazil)
Honorable Mention — Indo Dubai International Film Festival 2026 (UAE)
Honorable Mention — Reale Film Festival 2026 (Italy)
Aurelia: Golden Fox Princess is an award-winning 10-minute AI-driven animated music short film.
Set in a dreamlike desert civilization of gold, ruins, and fading memory, the film follows Aurelia, a radiant fox princess drifting between fantasy and reality.
Through music, cinematic imagery, and emotional symbolism, the work explores beauty, longing, and the search for meaning in a fleeting world.
Playful, elusive, and quietly self-serving, Aurelia moves through fragments of memory and light — at times distant, at times disarmingly close.
As her world unfolds, she reveals not only beauty, but a subtle, human-like desire: to seek warmth, comfort, and something of value in a fleeting world.
A cinematic work by Studio Nono, blending AI-generated imagery with anime-inspired visuals, music-led storytelling, and emotionally driven narrative design.
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Pai ChenDirector
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Project Type:Animation, Experimental, Music Video, Short
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Runtime:9 minutes 27 seconds
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Completion Date:March 21, 2026
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Production Budget:100 USD
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Country of Origin:Taiwan
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Country of Filming:Taiwan
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Language:Chinese
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Shooting Format:AI Generated / Digital Animation
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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Digital Cinema Package:Unavailable
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Mei International Film Festival
India
Official Selection
Pai Chen is an independent creator working at the intersection of AI-generated imagery, music, and narrative-driven visual design.
His work explores new forms of performance and storytelling through hybrid production methods, where digital characters and cinematic language merge into cohesive experiences.
With a focus on atmosphere, timing, and controlled visual revelation, he creates works that invite audiences to engage beyond surface-level viewing.
His pieces are often structured in layers, allowing meaning to emerge progressively rather than being immediately disclosed.
In “Aurelia: Golden Fox Princess,” I was interested in exploring a presence that exists between distance and intimacy.
Aurelia is not a character who declares herself. She appears, drifts, and withdraws—moving through light, memory, and fragments of space without fully belonging to any of them. Rather than telling a story in a conventional sense, the film follows a quiet accumulation of moments, where meaning emerges through rhythm, atmosphere, and repetition.
The work was created through a process that treats AI not simply as a tool, but as a responsive medium. By combining voice, image, and musical structure, I aimed to build a form where performance and environment dissolve into one another, allowing the character to exist as both presence and echo.
At its core, the film reflects a simple question: how can a character be felt, even when she remains just out of reach?
Through Aurelia, I am exploring a way of storytelling that is less about resolution, and more about resonance.
