In a Tokyo screening room filled with filmmakers and creators from around the world, Oscar-winning art director Tim Yip delivered a clarion call for preserving human emotion in an age of artificial intelligence.

“Technology is so strong, you have to get something more than, higher than the technology to make it as a tool, so not as a god,” Yip said during the KlingAI NextGen Creative Contest awards ceremony and panel discussion.

The event, held alongside the Tokyo International Film Festival , showcased winning films from a competition that attracted more than 4,600 submissions from 122 countries and regions, competing for a $42,000 prize pool. But rather than celebrating technical prowess alone, the evening’s most powerful moments centered on deeply personal stories of memory, human

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