They Came When We Left

They Came When We Left by Justinas Vosylius, named Film Winner at CapCut CRE[AI]TE AI Festival 2026, is a sci-fi short about Nilo, a young alien who studies what humanity left behind and believes we may return. Set in an abandoned Italian village, the film builds Nilo's picture of us out of the stories passed down to him and the objects people left behind. It favors subtle acting and slow storytelling over spectacle. Most scenes were generated in CapCut Video Studio as roughly 30-second takes. Justinas then selected individual shots, performances, and moments from them to build the edit, iterating closely on gestures, eyelines, and pauses.