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The Material Cloud Film Festival

Event date: 2026-03-05 to 2026-04-14

Event location: KTH, Stockholm

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie project LIBRA, supported by the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, the Swedish Red Cross, ForumCiv, Digital Futures and the Centre for Anthropocene History proudly announce The Material Cloud Film Festival, a three-night film festival exploring the often unseen material realities behind artificial intelligence, including labour conditions, extractive supply chains, and power concentration.

As AI expands into nearly every sector of society, it is frequently framed as clean, efficient and intangible. Yet behind its sleek interfaces lie vast infrastructures, hidden workforces and resource-intensive systems that raise urgent ethical and political questions. Through film screenings and expert-led discussions, the festival invites audiences to ask: What lies behind the cloud?

Each evening features a carefully selected film exploring a different dimension of AI. Topics range from human labour and bias in training data to mineral extraction, contamination, and the environmental and emotional costs of sustaining algorithmic systems. All events are open to the public and free of charge.

  1. Humans in the Loop
    • Thursday 5 March, 2026, 17.15-20.00, screening starts 17.30
    • Location: SKH Biosal, Valhallvägen 189, Stockholm
  2. Donde los niños no sueñan & Paradise Island
    • Wednesday 18 March, 2026, 17.15-20:00, screening starts 17.30
    • Location: ForumCiv, Alsnögatan 7, Stockholm
  3. In the Belly of AI
    • Tuesday 14 April, 2026, 16.00-21.00, screening starts 17.00
    • Location: Bio Skandia, Drottninggatan 82

More information: https://www.kth.se/ehl/ehl-events/the-material-cloud/the-material-cloud-film-festival-1.1456604

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