The Museum of Borrowed Hands
A restorer discovers that the hands of old statues continue working on unrelated artworks at night.
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The story
In a Dresden museum, Lotte repairs damaged sculptures while the collection is to be sold. At night, she finds clay, paint, and fresh fingerprints on works nobody can have touched. The borrowed hands do not want to haunt but to complete a lost mural. Lotte must decide whether art is property or testimony.
- Original title
- Das Museum der geliehenen Hände
- Country / region
- Germany · Austria
- Genres
- Thriller · Fantasy · Drama
- Language
- German
- Year
- 2027
- Runtime
- 90:00
- Director
- Tessa König
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