Concrete Berta Learns to Swim
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The story
A water-averse cement mixer jumps into a flooded excavation site with a garden hose as a snorkel to rescue four ducklings from a floating blueprint.
- Original title
- Beton-Berta lernt schwimmen
- Country / region
- Germany
- Genres
- Fantasy · Action · Comedy
- Language
- German
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 74:00
- Director
- Lotte Zementa
Creative process
Humans retain the final decision on screenplay, casting, acting direction, shot selection, continuity, editing, sound, color, safety review, and release.
As of July 17, 2026: completed May 6, 2026; theatrical release September 2, 2026 planned. Human-written briefing and shot list; supervised generation with current models; manual editing; licensed sound and color finishing; legal, safety, and technical quality checks.
- AI participation (source-declared)
- 75%
- Creative method
- Synthetic animation
- Format
- Animation
- Resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85:1
- Frame rate
- 24
- Delivery format
- DCP 2K Flat + ProRes 422 HQ archival master
- Subtitles
- German · English · French · Korean · Japanese · Thai