The Lantern With Wings
A winged lantern flies through Leipzig at night, delivering apologies to people who no longer speak to each other.
IXF-AIF-2026-RWYMF5HFRC
The story
A restorer finds an old lantern with metal wings in a church. Every night it takes off, drawn by unspoken apologies. The city begins to see bright traces in the sky, while the restorer realizes that one apology has had no landing place for years.
- Original title
- Die Laterne mit Flügeln
- Country / region
- Germany · Austria
- Genres
- Fantasy · Romance · Drama
- Language
- German
- Year
- 2030
- Runtime
- 85:00
- Director
- Anika Vogel
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