A new AI-assisted sci-fi satire from filmmaker Dan Levy Dagerman and the Space Weed Universe collective premiered its trailer at Cannes. Martians arrive, get high, and deliver a verdict on the difference between cinema and content. The cannabis angle is older than humanity.
“Where I’m from, movies like the one you’re watching would never be called content. They’re how we understand a species.”
That’s a Martian, in the new trailer for Cannesabis: Disclosure Night, released this week to mark the opening of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. The film is an AI-assisted sci-fi satire from filmmaker Dan Levy Dagerman and the Space Weed Universe collective, presented by High Times in collaboration with Space Weed Universe. The trailer makes an argument before the film even arrives: cinema and content aren’t the same thing, and somewhere along the way the festival economy stopped distinguishing them.
First contact, by megayacht
The premise: extraterrestrials, after monitoring Earth from a distance, identify Cannes as the place where humanity gathers annually to honor its greatest stories. They don’t come to conquer. They come because they love movies, and because they believe cannabis has always been part of humanity’s creative signal.
Their UFO plunges into the Mediterranean in broad daylight and surfaces as a luxury megayacht off the Croisette. Nobody notices. The festival continues uninterrupted. Phones scroll. Red carpet poses get rehearsed. The invitation-only parties fill up.
“Dude, I’m so fucking high flying this UFO right now,” one of the Martians announces from inside the craft.
The cast of outsiders includes Queen ET, a commanding cultural revolutionary; Rocky Martiano, a drifting cinephile wandering the Riviera; and billionaire Harry Herts, who sees cinema less as art than as a scalable luxury asset. …
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Author: Javier Hasse / High Times
