THE FINAL INTERVIEW | Sci-Fi Drama Film | Sharath Kumar Nair | Higgsfield Global Film Festival 2026

One hour before every great death in history, one man asks the last question. Tonight, he's the subject. For thirty years, Elias Vance has travelled back to the final hour of the dead — kings, tyrants, poets — and recorded their last words. He cannot warn them. He cannot save them. Before the end, the wipe takes every memory of him, so history never changes. Only the record comes home. Tonight, at 11:52 PM, a corroded railing on his terrace will fail. And a young interviewer named Maya Sen is standing at his door with an identical drone, an identical case, and one question that isn't on the form. THE FINAL INTERVIEW is a 12-minute science fiction short film about grief, spectacle, and the price of watching. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Note: portions of this film are in German with English subtitles. Turn captions ON (CC) for the full experience. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE FINAL INTERVIEW is a fully AI-generated film. Every frame and audio was synthesised — there is no photographed footage and no on-camera cast. The screenplay, shot design, edit, colour, sound edit & mix are human-authored. "The past is never dead. It's not even past." — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE UNCANNY COMPANY presents A film by SHARATH KUMAR NAIR Written, Generated & Directed by — SHARATH KUMAR NAIR Produced by — SHARATH KUMAR NAIR Editor — APPU N BHATTATHIRI Colorist — SREEDHAR V VFX & Frame Cleanup — APPU N BHATTATHIRI Sound Edit & Mix — ABHISHEK S BHATTATHIRI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MADE WITH All visual generation on — HIGGSFIELD Image models — Seedream 5.0 Pro, GPT Image 2.0 & GPT Image 2.5 Video model — Seedance 2.5 Voice & audio engines — ElevenLabs, Seed Audio 1.0 & Suno Post & grading — Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve & Pro Tools Presented in 21:9 — best watched full-screen with Headphones ON. Project page — https://higgsfield.ai/@sharathknair/p... All visual assets and synthetic performances were created on Higgsfield using licensed AI tools and commercial agreements. No unauthorized likenesses or protected intellectual property were utilized. © 2026 The Uncanny Company. All rights reserved. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this got to you — subscribe. There's more coming. The project page, shot by shot: https://higgsfield.ai/@sharathknair/p... Contact / festivals: sharathknairs@hotmail.com #aifilm #shortfilm #scifi #aifilmmaking #aivideo #timetravel #dystopian #sciencefiction #scifishortfilm