Super Me, an AI feature, premieres at SHAIKE in La Ciotat

Super Me, a feature film its makers say was made entirely with AI, gets its world premiere on Saturday, October 3, at the Eden Théâtre in La Ciotat, France. The screening closes the first edition of the SHAIKE Film Festival, according to the festival's own site, which lists the premiere for 7pm.

The festival's page describes Super Me as "a feature film by Mr Press, based on a true story" and says it is "co-produced by SHAIKE and Fernando Meirelles," the Brazilian director known for City of God. Mr Press is the working name of Marcelo Presotto, a Brazilian director, editor and self-described AI artist with more than three decades in commercials and music videos, according to his FilmFreeway profile. SHAIKE's own LinkedIn post about the premiere adds that the production credits Jeremy Angelier, the festival's founder, and names TapNow as creative partner.

Presotto has described Super Me on his own LinkedIn account as a "biographical feature film. 100% made with Generative AI," built from a true story about his childhood in 1980s São Paulo. In an earlier post sharing what he called the first 10 minutes of the project, he said the teaser represented "months of work, over 50 finalized scenes, and the beginning of a long journey." SHAIKE's synopsis, posted on its own channel, places the story with an 18-year-old named Lucas who takes a job as a nightclub bouncer in 1980s São Paulo and is drawn into conflict with a neo-Nazi skinhead gang. Neither the festival nor the filmmaker has published a running time for the finished feature.

The venue carries its own weight in the story. The festival's site calls the Eden Théâtre "the oldest cinema still in operation," and ICI Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur traces that claim to 1895, when the Lumière brothers filmed and screened L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat in the same town. The local outlet reports that the festival's first edition runs October 2 and 3, with Saturday's program, including the Super Me premiere, free and open to the public. Friday is reserved for industry guests on paid tickets. The jury is led by Olivier Dahan, director of La Vie en Rose, with Éric Judor, Jacques Malaterre and Anne Richard among the panel, according to the festival's own site, which also states the festival judges AI-made and camera-shot films under one competition with no separate categories.

Super Me arrives as distributors elsewhere test whether AI-made features can hold a cinema screen. Turkish arthouse distributor Başka Sinema has already given a theatrical run to Post Truth, an AI-generated documentary, and has since acquired domestic rights to the 80-minute AI drama A Woman Asleep for a spring 2027 release across 20 Turkish cities, Variety reported. In China, Reuters reported that regulators granted a public-screening licence to Sanxingdui: Future Memories, a 90-minute AI science-fiction feature from Bona Film Group, the first AI film from a major Chinese studio cleared for theatrical release there. Super Me's premiere puts a European arthouse venue, rather than a commercial multiplex, at the center of that same test.

Super Me screens once, free, on Saturday, October 3 at 7pm at the Eden Théâtre in La Ciotat, as the closing-night film of the SHAIKE Film Festival.