THE MEDICAL NUMBER (2026) | AI Short Film (Higgsfield Global Film Festival)

Romania, 2005. Elena checks into the county hospital for a routine operation. The anaesthetic costs one hundred dollars, in a white envelope. Then a doctor writes a number on a piece of paper, and for the next twenty years, Elena is no longer a woman. She is file number 4372. Based on a true story. THE MEDICAL NUMBER is a Romanian New Wave short film made entirely with generative AI, from the first frame to the last sound, in Higgsfield Cinema Studio 4.0, for the Higgsfield Global Film Festival. ▶ EVERY PROMPT IS PUBLIC. The full project, with every image, every video generation, every voice and the complete prompt history, is open here, free to explore and learn from: https://higgsfield.ai/@valicslehel/pr… WHAT WAS USED • All images and video: Higgsfield Cinema Studio 4.0 (character consistency across 21 story-years, multi-setup dialogue scenes with hard cuts, voices generated together with the image) • Locations and props: Nano Banana Pro • Additional voice work and sound: AI-generated only, no human recordings, no stock music • Editing: Adobe Premiere Pro (traditional editing only) THE STORY BEHIND IT The film is based on real events from Transylvania, 2005: a healthy woman, a borderline biopsy result, white envelopes at every door, and a fear that outlived the diagnosis by twenty years. Names have been changed; every face and voice in the film is fully fictional and AI-generated. Written and directed by Valics Lehel. Subtitles available in English and Romanian.