The Carbon Garden
A Munich biologist discovers that an urban carbon garden grows leaves in the shapes of the faces of people who will die at the next release.
IXF-AIF-2026-UW64GJPKQA
The story
The city celebrates a climate-tech garden that pulls carbon from the air. Biologist Elise notices that the leaves form human profiles, always a few days before accidents on the site. Her investigation leads to a storage system beneath the park and a sponsor who wants to keep the bloom at any price.
- Original title
- Der Kohlenstoffgarten
- Country / region
- Germany · Austria
- Genres
- Science fiction · Thriller
- Language
- German
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 88:00
- 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 · Thai · French · Spanish · German · Arabic