Mirror Forest
A forest ranger enters a forest whose trees mirror what life would have been like without fear.
IXF-AIF-2026-ADHZ4R47A5
The story
After a storm, silver trunks stand among the old firs in the Black Forest. Ranger Lena sees in them not her face but decisions she never made. As hikers disappear, she follows the mirror paths to a clearing that tolerates no present.
- Original title
- Der Spiegelwald
- Country / region
- Germany · Austria
- Genres
- Fantasy · Thriller · Drama
- Language
- German
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 89:00
- Director
- Niklas Hart
Creative process
Direction, editing, rights verification, German dialogue editor, EU rights verifier, and production approve creative, legal, and cultural results.
Human-led story development, script polish, casting bible, and rights verification; Runway Gen-4.5 for key cinematic plates; Google Veo 3.1 Flow for physics, camera blocking, and alternate motion passes; Runway Aleph 2.0 for per-shot transformations and continuity corrections; finishing with Blender, Houdini, DaVinci Resolve Studio 20, Pro Tools, German-language review, and C2PA export.
- AI participation (source-declared)
- 75%
- Creative method
- Live action with AI
- Format
- Feature film
- Resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
- Frame rate
- 24 fps
- Delivery format
- 4K DCP, ProRes 4444 XQ master, and H.265 review screener.
- Subtitles
- English · Korean · Japanese · Thai · French · Spanish · German