LeleKai
LeleKai
A festival for the next generation. Hybrid cinema, adjacent to Cannes. We teach kids to use AI as a film camera. Then we put what they make on a stage.
A movie is not just a patchwork of data. It’s a personal vision.Iris Knobloch · Festival de Cannes · April 9, 2026
The room a generation grew up in is changing. We are building the next one.
Across Europe, social platforms are being closed to under-15s. A daily place where teenagers gathered, learned, and made things is no longer where they live.
Europe · 2025–2027Major festivals ruled that films generated end-to-end by AI compete in their own category, not the main one. The kids who learned these tools needed a different room.
Festival de Cannes · April 2026
A festival, first. A school network behind it. Teachers in the room, tools on the table, films at the end of the year. The work meets a real stage.
LeleKai · A Festival of Hybrid Cinema“A movie is not just a patchwork of data. It’s a personal vision.”
We agree. We also notice that two weeks after Knobloch said it, France passed a law keeping fifteen-year-olds off Instagram. Both moves are right. Both moves leave a hole. We fill it with a school, a stage, and a country.
Read the full manifesto →Pick the one that fits. The platform serves all three at once.
13 to 21. Open submissions. Curriculum included. Mentorship in the room, the tools on the table, a real festival at the end.
Open submissions →Teachers, mentors, creators — bring your students. We supply the program and the screening. You bring the room and the eyes.
Get the curriculum →Brands with a CSR mandate, governments with a youth gap to close, foundations with a cultural one — there is a real seat next to a real festival.
Request the brief →Four addresses, four humans. Replies within two working days, faster from Cannes during the festival.
Venue confirmed mid-May 2026
06000 Nice, France
Public & press · invitation list opens late April