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Title: DEVIL:ERROR_001 -Kyrie-
Runtime: 8 min
Country: Japan
Director: kasamacura
Placement: Honorable Mention
Competition: June, 2026
Synopsis: In a world where prayers have fallen silent and memories are fading away, a solitary consciousness struggles to preserve the ultimate meaning of being human, as an AI-fused nanovirus begins to erode identity itself. Caught between what remains and what is being lost, the self fractures—leaving only fragments, distortion, and the echo of something once human.