What does the cutting edge of generative AI production in Germany look like right now? This session brings together the three most advanced AI productions in Germany today – a full-AI cinema production, a hybrid live-action/AI short and an AI-generated animation project still in development.
“The Wind Before the Name”
Mark Wachholz & Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann | DREAMKITE Studios
DREAMKITE Studios introduces “The Wind Before the Name”, an ambitious feature-length cinema project conceived to be generated entirely with AI. Its fully GenAI-created concept trailer has already been selected for the 2026 Future Vision XPRIZE and is in the running for the SPECS Audience Choice Award. Mark Wachholz and Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann give an early look at the project and discuss how they plan to take it from concept to feature-length production.
Newly founded by Wachholz and Higuchi-Zitzmann, DREAMKITE takes the #MTHCON stage for its first joint conference appearance as a company.
“VOLCANO HIGH”
Lars Stark | Chapter41 (Beta Film)
Sarika Hemi Lakhani | X Filme Creative Pool
Chapter41 and X Filme Creative Pool present “VOLCANO HIGH”, a hybrid short film shot with real actors and transformed through generative AI in post-production. The performances remain untouched, while environments, architecture and crowds are rebuilt around them — making AI not just a production tool, but part of the film’s visual language.
“Being Bexly”
Tim Greve | seven200. AI Studios
Rainer Matsutani | Red Sun Films
Tim Greve and director Rainer Matsutani open up an AI-generated animation project while it is still taking shape. Rather than presenting a finished result, they give the audience a rare look inside an ongoing production — and at the creative and production decisions being made along the way.
From Full AI to Hybrid to Work in Progress, the three cases show how far generative AI production in Germany has already moved beyond experimentation — and what filmmakers and producers are actually making with it today.
