Dear colleagues, The Department of Communication and the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona are organizing the +RAIN Film Festival, the first European AI film festival to be held on the 14th of June 2023. +RAIN is co-organized with Sónar+D, in collaboration with Runway and CCCB. The festival will be held in the Campus de la Comunicació, in Poblenou (Barcelona), and will consist of 4 different sections, being the RESEARCH conference the first one. This link <https://www.upf.edu/web/rainfilmfest/rain> contains details on the different sections. (https://www.upf.edu/web/rainfilmfest/rain) In the +RAIN RESEARCH conference, we will discuss the intersection and complementarities between AI and media narratives, as well as about critical questions such as authorship, copyright, creativity and ethics. The preliminary conference programme includes the following interventions: 1. Keynote. Joanna Zylinska (King’s College London, UK). *AUTO-FOTO-KINO: On Nonhuman Creativity* 2. Keynote. Andrea L. Guzmán (Northern Illinois University, USA) *Communication and Authorship in an Age of AI: Where does Metaphor End and Reality Begin?* 3. Round table on the topic: *Narratives of AI: current trends and opportunities for film production, new roles in cinema production and the future impact on the media contents industry*. Speakers: Claudia Giannetti, Cristóbal Valenzuela, Víctor Pérez, Víctor Alonso Chair: Jorge Caballero 4. Round table on the topic: *Ethics and authorship in media and film creation in times of AI*. Speakers: Sara Suárez-Gonzalo, Patrícia Ventura, Albert Sabater, Víctor Pérez. (in Catalan) 5. Presentation of the project *Automating Cinema: A Materialist Approach to Creativity in the Age of AI.* Speakers: Pei-Sze Chow and Claudio Celis Bueno (university of Amsterdam) If you are interested in attending the research section of the festival, please send a message to rainfilmfest@upf.edu with the subject +RAIN Research Attendance. Official registration will be opened on our website by mid-April. For further information, please contact the coordinators of the session Coloma Ballester (coloma.ballester@upf.edu) or Frederic Guerrero-Solé (frederic.guerrero@upf.edu). Attendance at the festival is free. After the RESEARCH conference, we will have the opportunity to watch the best AI films presented to our festival, and will discuss them with the authors/creators that will be invited to come to Barcelona. This is the link to the International Call for films generated with AI <https://www.upf.edu/web/rainfilmfest/call>. If you know anyone interested in participating in the Cinema FEST, do not hesitate to forward this message. (https://www.upf.edu/web/rainfilmfest/call) Looking forward to meeting you at the +RAIN Film Festival, Coloma Ballester and Frederic Guerrero-Solé -- *Prof. Frederic Guerrero-Solé*PhD Program Director Faculty of Communication Department of Communication University Pompeu Fabra Roc Boronat, 138, 52.825 | 08018 Barcelona [Tel.] +3493542 2399 frederic.guerrero@upf.edu <http://www.twitter.com/guersole> <http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8145-8707> [image: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona]