The Balcony Sea
In a Munich apartment building, a different piece of sea grows on every balcony.
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The story
Retired Helga waters her balcony plants and finds shells, seaweed, and a tiny wave the next morning. Soon all the balconies of the block carry different coastlines. The building management calls it water damage, but the neighbors recognize in it the places they never visited out of fear.
- Original title
- Das Balkonmeer
- Country / region
- Germany · Austria
- Genres
- Fantasy · Comedy · Drama
- Language
- German
- Year
- 2027
- Runtime
- 84:00
- Director
- Jana Wolf
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