Cardboard Republic
A Berlin packaging designer accidentally starts a political movement after a cardboard city model begins issuing real permits.
IXF-AIF-2026-R3TMJYXGZC
The story
Marta designs municipal packaging for public campaigns nobody reads. Her cardboard scale model of a better city is mistaken for an official reform office when residents receive permits printed from its tiny windows. The satire becomes real as bureaucrats try to fold the model back into silence.
- Original title
- Karton Republik
- Country / region
- Germany · Austria
- Genres
- Comedy · Experimental
- Language
- German
- Year
- 2027
- Runtime
- 82:00
- Director
- Tessa Konig
Creative process
Director, editor, rights reviewer, German dialogue editor and EU rights reviewer, and producer approve creative, legal, and cultural outputs.
Human-led story development, screenplay polish, casting bible, and rights review; Runway Gen-4.5 for primary cinematic plates; Google Veo 3.1 with Flow for physics, camera blocking, and alternate motion passes; Runway Aleph 2.0 for shot-level transformation and continuity fixes; Blender, Houdini, DaVinci Resolve Studio 20, Pro Tools, native-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, H.265 review screener.
- Subtitles
- English · Korean · Thai · French · Spanish · German · Arabic