15:00 – 18:30 Fulldome 360° Filmfestival (Tagesticket I)
20:00- 21:00 Live Concerts in the Dome - Double Feature: Delhia de France & Danny Daze - BLUE
There is also a COMBI ticket for all FullDome Festival fans. For €40.00 or €30.00 reduced, you can enjoy the entire daytime programme and the immersive theater in the evening. Celebrate with the international fulldome scene in virtual space.
We celebrate our anniversary! For the 20th time, we are opening the doors of the oldest planetarium in the world for the
international FullDome Festival 2026. The FullDome Festival shows the best 360° films
produced in the past year. The films are created by professional producers, young talents and
innovative artists and some of them celebrate their world premiere.
The best productions will be nominated for the JANUS Awards, the „Oscar“ of the fulldome scene, on July 15th 2026. In addition to the fulldome films, the programme also includes the Frameless Forum presentations. Innovations from the fields of fulldome, media art, electronic art, virtual reality and 3D sound will be presented for discussion.
The day ticket includes the entire festival programme with all performances, film screenings and
technology talks for one day.
There is also a COMBI ticket for all FullDome Festival fans. For €40.00 or €30.00 reduced, you can enjoy the entire daytime programme and the live concert in the evening. Celebrate with the international fulldome scene in virtual space.
For more insider news follow us on Instragram: fulldome_festival
The film, performance and lecture programme will be published soon on www.fulldome-festival.de.
There will be video recordings of the events. Some of the films contain stroboscopic effects and fast image sequences.
Check-in and official registration
Two anniversaries, one shared vision of the future. The Fulldome Festival celebrates 20 years of creative experimentation in the immersive medium
– while also honoring 100 years of the Planetarium, the birthplace of a culture that unites science and art in extraordinary ways.
OPEN HORIZONS
The opening block belongs to new discoveries and unusual perspectives. Full of surprises and fresh energy.
5055
Haché, Jonah
Short film: 05:00 Min
Canada
5055 is a 3D animated fulldome short set in a distant future where a city survives in space long after the destruction of Earth.
The film imagines how architecture and culture continue to transform over time.
Guided by an ambient score from electronic artist Lusine, the work unfolds as a slow flythrough of light and form, using motion and scale to suggest how traces of place persist beyond their original world.
GOETHE UND DAS ALL-RUND
Apolda Avantgarde e.V.
Short Film: 15:00 Min
Germany
An annual themed festival is held at a replica of Goethe‘s iconic garden house. This year's theme was 'Goethe and the All-Round'.
Goethe, a wine connoisseur, was particularly fond of the 1811 vintage. It is said that a comet passing over Europe that year had a favourable influence on the vines.
But would the wine stand up to scrutiny? What effect will the Comet Wine have on today's party guests?
El Macroscopio: Memories of a Simulation
Shambo Daniel / Hernández Sebastián / Santiago Caicedo
Short Film: 08:00 Min
Colombia
El Macroscopio portrays the lifetime of a simulated universe. A journey where chaos gives birth to order.
Born from an interactive installation, it explores the tension between the infinitely vast and the infinitely small. The gravity, magnetism, and even the sound was once shaped by human gestures in real-time.
This fulldome film is the memory of that living system: one possible unfolding of a cosmos that evolves from turbulence to biology, from geometry to stillness.
Each moment reveals how the microscopic and the cosmic are reflections of each other. A living artwork by Proyecto Aurora
Goodbye, Goldie
Clark, Pat
Short film: 04:00 Min
United States
A beloved pet goldfish reflects on his life.
Pixel Zoo Ocean
Indermaur, Christian (Director, Projektil)/ Wagner, Immanuel (Director, Projektil)/ Marc Horat, Verkehrshaus der Schweiz
Full length: 38:00 Min
Switzerland
Pixel Zoo Ocean takes you and your family on an immersive journey through the fascinating world of the oceans. From the colourful coral reef to the impressive kelp forests and the wide open ocean to the dark deep sea - the space-time glider from the artist collective PROJEKTIL makes this underwater adventure possible. The show, which was developed in collaboration with Zurich Zoo, conveys the beauty, diversity and fragility of our oceans in an impressive way.
BODY AND SOUND
When the dome becomes a concert hall, a dance floor, a resonance chamber. From geological data as sound composition to disco euphoria, image and sound merge into total synaesthetic experience.
Flicker and Gambol
Tara Rose Morris / Graham Steinman
New talent: 04:00 Min
Canada
Flicker and Gambol invites you to take off your mask and dance with the sun and the moon.
ANGST
Tote Tiere Maarten / GAŁGAŁ
Short film: 04:00 Min
Germany
One day, in a car, GAŁGAŁ and Tote Tiere Maarten listened to track 6 "Angst" from GAŁGAŁ's Album "Ich schwöre ich hab Angst"
Right there and then, Tote Tiere Maarten had a vision. He saw the music. He saw what he had to do.
Dance DOME Revolution. Move it, feel it, dance it!
PEI-YU HSU / I-Lung Chiu / Pei-Yan Liao / Chia-Hsiang Lee / Fang-I Chao
Short film: 11:00 Min
Taiwan
Dance DOME Revolution invites audiences to travel back to the vibrant disco era of the 1980s and step into a dazzling dome dance floor. Through immersive 360-degree fulldome projection and retro-inspired dance movements, the work transforms spectators into participants, encouraging them to rediscover bodily rhythm through movement.
The story follows an elderly participant who attends the party with their granddaughter, Anna. What begins as quiet observation gradually turns into participation, as Anna’s enthusiastic invitation draws them onto the dance floor. Moving from hesitation to freedom, the dancer reconnects with a long-forgotten sense of passion and courage through music and motion.
Under the sky
Jérémy Griffaud
Short film: 10:00 MIn
France
Under the Sky is a 6 minutes immersive animated film by artist Jérémy Griffaud, created at the invitation of the Musée national Marc Chagall. This 360° work surrounds the viewer in a dreamlike flow of hybrid landscapes and fantastical creatures. Composed of nearly 300 watercolors created during an artistic residency in Borneo, the work is inspired by local tribal cultures and their deep, spiritual connection with the natural world. Echoing and transforming Chagall's humanist message, Under the Sky emphasizes our fragile relationship with plants, animals and insects. Between Edenic gardens and disappearing ecosystems, the animation offers a poetic meditation on interconnection, loss and the cycles of life.
La méthode des moments
Yakonowsky, Lydia
Short film: 10:00 Min
Canada
"La Méthode des moments" is my third fulldome short and explores, in graphic form, the passage of time through different phases in life. This way, the film transposes the method of moments, a statistical technique, into the artistic realm. Rather than illustrating life literally, the film unfolds it through abstraction, letting memory, growth, and loss emerge from shifting shapes and movement.
In my deepest moments of grief, I’ve noticed how I’m suddenly flooded by a torrent of memories rising all at once— like bubbles full of fragments of what I was losing, with no sense of order or scale, from the smallest details to the most defining moments.
In the film, these moment-bubbles don’t just float alone. They merge and cling together, shaping clusters and patterns; charting a specific period, where memories combine to reveal what life felt like at that time. You embark on an immersive journey through these moments: at times, you drift inside them; at others, you land after passing through and experience them in the present, letting them shine around you.
Through these reinvented graphs, the movie illustrates a universal human experience.
Tales of Hofmann
Hartmann, Luisa / Stellwag, Tim & Ness, Eddie/ Planetarium Hamburg
Short film: 08:00
Germany
Tales of Hofman is an immersive exploration of the often-unnoticed processes that shape our perception of the world. Beginning in the quiet complexity of a forest ecosystem, the film moves through surreal landscapes before transitioning into the human brain, incorporating authentic MRI scans to suggest shifting states of mind. By drawing subtle parallels between natural systems and human biology, it reflects on the interconnectedness of environment and consciousness. Combining 360° live-action footage with 3D animation created in Blender and Unreal Engine, the film transforms scientific imagery into a poetic audiovisual experience.
The project premiered on December 11. 2025 at the Planetarium Hamburg, were it was part of a one-hour student production from the HAW Hamburg.
Breath of the Loci
Kozub, Jared / Barton, Todd
Short film: 08:00 Min
Canada
In this art film by Jared Kozub the universe breathes music to life across the cosmos through giant shakuhachi flutes and vocals. It starts on a mysterious desert planet and takes you on a journey across the stars - visiting locations such as volcanoes, nebulae, black holes, and more. The sound of Japanese flutes paired with spacey visuals create an immersive and meditative experience in the dome.
The Lost Garden
D.T. Lam, Michel/ Fig55
Short film: 08:00
Canada
Users walk through a dreamlike garden where everything seems extinguished and gradually bring the musicians of Les Violons du Roy to life around them. As Summer from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons plays, the garden slowly comes back to life.
Live 01
Delhia de France – Pre-Premiere Listening Session
Delhia de France returns to the Jena dome — and she's bringing something no one has heard yet.
On the opening night of Fulldome Festival 2026, she will present her latest work for the very first time, straight from the studio.
The 40-minute tape moves between podcast and musical performance: it traces a night at the club — from the warm-up through the peak-hour session into the chill-out.
Played mostly in the dark, with a deliberate focus on listening. No visuals, no distractions — just sound and narrative.
With the new Holoplot sound system, it will be a truly immersive acoustic experience.
www.delhiadefrance.com
Live 02
European Premiere -Danny Daze – ::BLUE::
For the first time in Europe, Miami-based electronic musician Danny Daze presents his immersive audiovisual work ::BLUE:: — a piece that brings together art, technology and perception in a striking way.
Developed specifically for modern dome environments and inspired by Daze's debut album, this 33-minute work combines intricate sound design with new original music.
At its heart is the Earth — as the carrier and origin of all life. ::BLUE:: invites us to reflect on our shared beginnings and the quiet, collective responsibility we hold for the generations that will follow.
https://www.dannydaze.blue/
For all FullDome Festival fans* there is a €40.00 or €30.00 reduced price
COMBI-Ticket. With this ticket you can enjoy the entire day programme on 15.07.26 and the
concerts in the evening. Celebrate with the international fulldome scene in
virtual space.
Praise the dome!
There will be video recordings of the events.
For more insider news follow us on Instragram: fulldome_festival
Easy fade out in Restaurant Bauersfeld
10:00-18:30 Fulldome 360° Filmfestival (Tagesticket II)
20:00-22:00 Oliver Koletzki – Planetarium Live-Set „Prophecy“
The Combi-Ticket is particularly good value for FullDome Festival fans. For €50.00
or €40.00 reduced, it includes the entire day programme including the Live Concert in the Dome: Oliver Koletzki
Fulldome 360° Filmfestival (Tagesticket II)
We celebrate our anniversary! For the 20th time, we are opening the doors of the oldest planetarium in the world for
the international FullDome Festival 2026. The FullDome Festival shows the best 360°
films produced in the past year. The films are created by professional
producers, young talents and innovative artists and some of them celebrate their
world premiere.
The best productions will be nominated for the JANUS Awards, the „Oscar“ of the fulldome
scene, on July 17th 2026. In addition to the fulldome films, the programme also
includes the Frameless Forum presentations. Innovations from the fields of fulldome,
media art, electronic art, virtual reality and 3D sound will be presented for discussion.
The day ticket includes the entire festival programme with all performances, film
screenings and technology talks for one day. The evening event is excluded from the
day ticket.
The Combi-Ticket is particularly good value for FullDome Festival fans.
For €50.00 or €40.00 reduced, it includes the entire day programme including the Live Concert in the Dome: Oliver Koletzki
For more insider news follow us on Instragram: fulldome_festival
The detailed film, performance and lecture programme will be published soon on
www.fulldome-festival.de.
There will be video recordings of the events. Some of the films contain stroboscopic effects and fast image sequences.
Your place in the Cosmos today. The stars over Jena explained.
Anna Green is Manager of Educational Concepts & Live Programs at the Zeiss-Planetarium Jena, bringing more than 15 years of experience in fixed and mobile planetariums across the US and Europe. She holds an M.A. in Museum Studies plus a Professional Educator License, and specializes in live interactive programs, curriculum-based education, and space history. Previously, Anna served as Manager of the James S. McDonnell Planetarium in Saint Louis, where she developed inclusive programming for visitors with low vision and who are blind. A twice-elected board member of the International Planetarium Society, she is a recognized advocate for innovation and access in the planetarium field. Anna believes that space science should be accessible to everyone and hopes her work sparks curiosity about the universe.
Anna Green
Cora Braun, Kiel University of Applied Sciences
On the Typology of Planetariums. Theater Layouts and Visual Language
How does the theater layout of a dome influence the stories we tell inside it? This presentation explores the relationship between spatial design and audience experience in planetariums as immersive media environments. Drawing on a dataset of 164 domes from the GDP and GLPA communities, it introduces a typology of planetariums to identify structures within the Planetarium landscape. Using statistical analysis, several distinct dome types emerge, each with its own spatial logic and viewing conditions. Building on media and design theory, the presentation reflects on the visual language of fulldome and the current conditions of planetarium practice.
www.haw-kiel.de
Julius Hilker
Urania Planetarium Potsdam
How to use Blender for Fulldome Production
In recent years, the open-source software Blender has developed into a viable alternative to commercial products such as 3D Studio Max, Cinema 4D and Maya. It is now used not only by hobbyists and in the advertising industry, but also for successful, Oscar-nominated productions.
This talk serves both as an introduction to and a case for Blender as a tool in fulldome production.
Xenia Guenther, Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar
Alien Kin & XTRA. Artistic Research, Collective Production and Immersive Worldbuilding
Alien Kin is an immersive fulldome project exploring alienation, collective transformation and speculative worlds through contemporary mediaart and experimental storytelling. This talk gives insight into the artistic research behind the project and introduces XTRA, a developing platform for immersive media art, collective production and research in XR and fulldome culture. The presentation also includes insights from an ongoing survey exploring contemporary perceptions of alien imagery, otherness and emotional realities.
Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics, Stockholm University
Strange transient objects in the sky. Beatriz’s recent peer-reviewed research publications provide robust evidence for non-anthropogenic UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena). Despite being shrouded in a mix of dismissal and blind spot management, the topic of UAPs has not gone away. In fact, it is more visible today than ever before, with Congressional hearings and films such as the 2025 documentary Age of Disclosure and Steven Spielberg's 2026 film Disclosure Day. Despite the growing speculation and ontological uncertainty, Dr Beatriz Villarroel’s research is firmly grounded in observable data, and is nonetheless astonishing.
Talk at Sol Foundation http://beatrizvillarroel.com/
Dr. Susanne Paech –
art meets science - Stiftung Herbert W. Franke
Art meets science fiction. Susanne is deeply involved in the work and life of the visionary author Herbert W. Franke, who would have celebrated his 100 th birthday in 2027. She realised that fulldome would be the most suitable medium for conveying Franke’s far-reaching ideas at the intersection of art and science fiction.
https://art-meets-science.io/
Anna Öst
Director, Visualiseringscenter C, Norrköping, Sweden
Exploring the future of science communication. Anna is a director, producer, and writer with a focus on immersive storytelling — using narrative, space, and technology to communicate complex ideas in ways that are both engaging and understandable. Based at the Visualization Center in Norrköping, Sweden, she leads the production team and explores the future of science communication as part of the national Wisdome initiative. Her work spans text, film, interactive exhibitions, and immersive media — particularly fulldome. Her most recent fulldome production, Once Upon the Moon, premiered in May 2026.
https://wisdomesweden.se/home-en/
https://annaost.com
Kelley Francis, Cinema, Communications and Immersive Installation
Dreamed environments on the verge of getting built. Kelley is a Creator and Coordinator of Immersive Installations and Fulldome shows, combining the arts, technology, interaction, entertainment sciences, wellness, play and big ideas that provoke a lasting experience.
The projects she‘s involved in speak for dreamed environments on the verge of getting built. Environments which evoke awe for the peoples and natural world around us. She is also active on the Dome Fest West team. https://www.domefestwest.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelleyfrancis/
NEW VOICES CROSSING BORDERS
The dome as a space of resistance and self-empowerment. A programme that offers not answers, but experiences. Queer perspectives, experimental positions and fresh energy.
Split Mind
Avani Vidhani / Marina Rodrigues Semensati / Robin Wiemann (H_da Lab Engineer)
New talent: 05:00 Min
Germany
A fulldome experience with live performance, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher. Descend into the character’s collapsing mind from within. A stable and rigid mind evolves into psychedelic chaos as a performer emerges. Their body becomes the catalyst for transformation, physically embodying the progressive dissolution of consciousness within an evolving architectural space.
Echoes of a thaught that died
Laura Pachón, Berfin Fiskeci, Alban Tufa
New talent: 05:00 Min
Germany
Echoes of a thought that died” transforms the dome into an interactive sensory organ representing the human mind as a space of chaotic sounds and blurred visuals. The physical sphere acts as an eye-like interface. When interacting with it, only one area becomes
clear while the rest stays black, showing that in a data-saturated world, meaning appears only where we choose to focus our attention.
overman_beta.exe
Simon Vanscheidt
New talent: 08:00 Min
Gemany
Lassen Sie sich von unserer charmanten Moderatorin mit auf eine Reise nehmen.
Eine Reise, die von Ihrer eigenen Existenz handelt.
Lehnen Sie sich zurück und entspannen Sie sich.
Sie werden sich selbst und Ihre Umwelt anschließend sicherlich ein wenig aufmerksamer beobachten.
Und das ist doch etwas Schönes, oder?
QTD-Queer the Dome
All members of the Queer the Dome Class run by Xenia Meierson
Ismaeil,Ziad / Fuchs, Lilian / Hedel, Lucas / Koebel, Remi / Lynn / Medentsev Johanna / Chaudhry, Amna / Nguyenová, Thao / Quandt, Henriette Wilhelmine / AK / Uhlmann, Hannah Marie Luise
BauhausModule, Kassablanca Jena e.V
New talent: 05:00 Min
Germany
Queer the Dome is a 360° collective performance exploring queer codes, subculture, and community as both subject and method. Developed DIY within a shared process, all elements emerged from within the group. Filmed at Kassablanca e.V., it invites viewers into immersive queerness as lived, collective experience
Irgendwo Nirgendwo
Siebenschock, Smilla / Fabian Gimpel (sound)/ Kunsthochschule Kassel
New talent: 05:00 Min
Germany
Irgendwo Nirgendwo ist eine 3D-animierte Traumreise, die auf dem dunklen Dach eines Hochhauses beginnt. In der Ferne flackert ein geheimnisvolles Licht auf, das immer wieder an anderen Orten erscheint. Wie ein flüchtiger Ruf aus den Tiefen der Stadt. Ein Flug beginnt, der getrieben wird von der Sehnsucht, das Licht zu erreichen, welches sich immer wieder entzieht.
Not yet
Bering Christiansen, Maria Anina
New talent: 04:00 Min
Denmark
A short film inspired by the overlap between alien phenomena and the spiritual concept of shared consciousness, and ultimately, the connection of these with our human instinct to create stories in order to explain the things we don’t yet understand.
How Did We Get To Earth?
Soggia, Jennifer Alice
New talent: 05:00 Min
Germany
A psychedlic sound and visual journey exploring the question: how did we get to earth?
Split Mind
Avani Vidhani / Marina Rodrigues Semensati / Robin Wiemann (H_da Lab Engineer)
New talent: 05:00 Min
Germany
A fulldome experience with live performance, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher. Descend into the character’s collapsing mind from within. A stable and rigid mind evolves into psychedelic chaos as a performer emerges. Their body becomes the catalyst for transformation, physically embodying the progressive dissolution of consciousness within an evolving architectural space.
A dream of connection
Gutschank,Malin/ Ben Sassen
Short film: 07:00 Min
Germany
Everything is possible in a universe filled with stars. When two stars collide a new love is crystallised from the darkness of space. "a dream of connection is a film about queer joy and the bauty of discovering yourself and your community. Let yourself be taken on a cosmic journey full of colours and dreams. Because at the end you are also stardust just looking for connection.
Internal orbit
Uhlmann, Hannah
New talent: 04:00 Min
Germany
internal orbit' is an immersive fulldome film that makes the menstrual cycle and endometriosis - a chronic condition - experienceable as an inner cosmos. Pulsating matter, growing structures, and eruptive flows visualize rhythm, pain, and discharge. A dynamic interplay between the body and universal cycles.
Zero Time Moment
Dolmatova, Daria
New talent: 04:00 Min
Germay
Zero Time Moment is a short film born out of the experience of
emigration — the disorientation of physical displacement, languages that
don't reach each other, a body that can't rest. It places the viewer inside
the architecture of anxiety: a headspace in which time freezes and
anxiety takes on spatial form — circular, inhabited, and ultimately
surrendered to.
Where the Lake Was
Çeliker, Mustafa
New talent: 04:00 Min
Germany-Turkey
Where the Lake Was is a short 360-degree documentary about Burdur Lake in Turkey, which has lost more than 20 meters of water level in the last 50 years. The film focuses on the lake's transformation through the memories of a local man and the symbol of a red balloon. AI-generated characters, visual effects, and reconstructed historical images were used to visualize the environmental change in a personal story. This film is part of my master's thesis project.
Of 1s and 0s
Delwaulle, Grégoire
New talent. 05:00 Min
Germany
Bitflips, complex physical phenomena that endanger technological devices are a real issue in space exploration. But where do they come from and how do they happen?
REMAINING
Fuchs, Lilian/ Kopp, Philip
New talent: 05:00 Min
Germany
Step aboard a deserted rococo spaceship engineered to preserve eternal happiness just in time for the vital gas Endorphin-7 approaching depletion.
HIDDEN STRUCTURES
Beneath the surface of the visible world lie structures that go through all of reality. From fractal mathematics to chaos theory and simulated universes.
Face's Journey
Minkyung Kim
New talent: 03:00 Min
Germany
Born to face a journey! "Face's Journey" is a fulldome animation in retro gaming style. A face travels through a pixel world in search of its dream. Where will it arrive at the end of its journey?
THE INFRANET
Diego Escares (INFRA) / Planetario Huechuraba
Short film: 06:00 Min
Chile
THE INFRANET is a hidden universe discovered through fractal mathematics. Endless mechanical landscapes emerge from self-organizing patterns where chaos generates unexpected megastructures. Through an immersive audiovisual experience, the work reveals how chaotic systems produce complex forms and infinite detail, opening a journey that defies human understanding.
On the Love for Mountains
Wen (James) Cui/ Tilman Porschuetz/
Short film: 09:00
Germany
"On the Love for Mountains" transforms geological data from Austria's Graz Highlands into a compelling audiovisual narrative. Taking inspiration from Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf"—where each character has its own musical theme—Mozart and Fader assign unique sounds to different geological layers, creating musical personalities for each era of Earth's history.
Belief
Bredán, Máté/ Planetarium Hamburg
Short film: 09:00 Min
Germany
Flight through human-built environments and celestial visions revolving around the idea that the pursuit of science and religion both requires a genuine will to believe.
9-minutes long audiovisual journey using laser-scans and the AT-HYG star catalog - composed in TouchDesigner, accompanied by spatial sound design.
Created as a part of anthology student film, titled MindSpace - at the HAW University.
Aether : Into the multiverse
Grillo, Glenn / Arcane Realities LLC
Short film: 15:00 Min
USA
Aether — A Cosmic AI Film Experience
Beyond form. Beyond time. Beyond the visible spectrum of reality…there is Aether.
This film is a journey into the luminous field between worlds — a realm where sacred geometry breathes, celestial temples rise from pure energy, and consciousness itself becomes architecture.
Aether is not driven by narrative, but by frequency.
A meditation in motion. A transmission from the higher layers of existence.
🎵 Original music composed by Arcane — a sonic landscape of ambient resonance, celestial harmonics, and deep spatial immersion
Into The Infinite
Müller-Ittstein, Melanie/ Rothenberger, Florian/ ZEISS AG
Short film: 09:00 Min
Germany
From the spark of a child’s wish under a shooting star to the cutting-edge frontiers of neuroscience, climate innovation, and AI, “Into the Infinite” is an awe-inspiring fulldome journey through space, earth, and the human experience. Seamlessly blending poetic narration with scientific marvels, it reveals our planet as both a fragile miracle and a launchpad for discovery. Through breathtaking visuals and immersive sound, this experience invites us to reimagine how we perceive, protect, and shape our world—together pushing the limits of vision, perception, and possibility.
Nadir
Horsthuis, Julius
Short film: 10:00 Min
The Netherlands
In Nadir, brutalist form becomes the starting point for a continuous journey downward in scale, into hidden layers of fractal structure. The film drifts from architectural weight into a realm of shifting geometries that feels both deeply unfamiliar and curiously nostalgic.
SPACE PIONEERS
From the first step on the moon to the search for black holes. Alongside visions of spaceflight, we encounter forgotten scientist Caroline Herschel and Jena mathematician Erhard Weigel.
She Whom the Moon Ruled
Alicia Sometimes/ Leonard Doublet/ Melbourne Planetarium
Short film: 06:00 Min
Caroline Herschel is regarded as one of the first female astronomers. Y
et, Caroline stood in the shadows of her brother William Herschel who was also an astronomer, famous for locating and correctly classifying the planet Uranus.
Destination Black Hole
D’ALESSANDRO Roberto (Director)/ FERNANDEZ Hugo (Original Score)/
A film produced by the Planetarium of the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
Full feature: 33:00 Min
France
Embark on an interstellar spacecraft and set off to discover black holes!
Planet Earth, year 2125. Space tourism is now all the rage, with the most popular destination being Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.
Accompanied by an experienced pilot and state-of-the-art AI, travelers will observe the life cycle of stars and explore complex scientific concepts such as singularity, space-time curvature, and gravitational mirage. But beware, in the vicinity of the galactic center, setbacks are to be expected.
Ich Bin Weigel
Sergey Prokofyev/ Alexandra Wolf/ JenaKultur
Short film: 19:00
Germany
Ich Bin Weigel is an immersive fulldome journey into the mind of 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Erhard Weigel. Blending geometry, mechanics, and cosmic imagination, the film transforms abstract thought into spatial experience. From a point in the dark, a universe of lines, circles, instruments, and ideas unfolds, revealing a world ordered not by power, but by number and measure. Inside Weigel's visionary "Pancosmos," thinking becomes architecture, and knowledge becomes movement. A poetic exploration of science as lived experience beneath the dome. Produced by JenaKultur within the framework of the Botho Graef Art Prize of the City of Jena 2025, the film combines historical research with contemporary fulldome storytelling, emphasizing the lasting relevance of Weigel's ideas for the natural sciences today.
One Step Beyond
Aaron Bradbury/ Paul Mowbray/
Full feature: 25:00 Min
United Kingdom
One small step was just the beginning. Now, we take one step beyond - driven by curiosity, bound for Mars, and ready to write the boldest chapter in human exploration.
Experience the thrill of launch, the challenges of life in space, the cutting-edge technology of NASA’s Artemis program, and the search for life that could transform how we see our planet, our past, and our place in the cosmos - as we prepare for humanity’s biggest step yet: setting foot on Mars.
Oliver Koletzki (Stil vor Talent) – Berlin’s sonic architect, whose track ‘Planetarium’ was no coincidence, but a prophecy pressed onto vinyl.
It’s as if the universe had already set the coordinates at the time of its 2017 release – for this space, this century, this breath:
his homage to 100 years of the Jena Planetarium, the oldest existing planetarium in the world.
For the Fulldome Festival 2026, Oliver brings his vision to Jena – with a set he has developed especially for this anniversary.
No club. No dance floor. Sit back, let your gaze drift into the infinite expanses of immersive worlds and let the frequencies guide you.
Above you: deep-space visuals that draw you into the endless vastness of the universe. Around you: moments of calm that feel like weightlessness.
Accompanied by melodic arcs and a beat that doesn’t drive, but carries.
Slowly. Consciously. Deeply. Frequencies that don’t invite you to dance – but to feel.
Between starlight, subwoofers and the feeling your soul longs for.
1h
💡 Tip
🎟️ Combo Ticket
Full day programme on 16 July + evening concert
€50 · €40 concession
https://www.oliver-koletzki.de/
10:00-20:30 Fulldome 360° Filmfestival & Award Gala (Tagesticket III)
23:00-06:00 Fulldome Festival Clubnight
The COMBI Ticket is particularly favourable for FullDome Festival fans. For
€40.00 or €30.00 reduced, it includes the entire daytime programme including the
Clubnight in the evening.
We celebrate our anniversay! For the 20th time, we are opening the doors of the oldest planetarium in the world for
the international FullDome Festival 2026. The FullDome Festival shows the best 360° films produced in the past year. The films are created by professional
producers, young talents and innovative artists and some of them celebrate their
world premiere.
The best productions will be announced in the evening for the JANUS Awards, the „Oscar“ of
the fulldome scene.
19:00 starts the Award Gala
Will be streamed live and free for those who cannot be in Jena – wait for link.
In addition to the fulldome films, the programme also includes
the Frameless Forum presentations. Innovations from the fields of fulldome, media
art, electronic art, virtual reality and 3D sound will be presented for discussion.
The day ticket includes the entire festival programme with all films
screenings and technology talks of the day and the nomination in the evening.
The Club Night is excluded from the day ticket.
The COMBI Ticket is particularly favourable for FullDome Festival fans. For
€40.00 or €30.00 reduced, it includes the entire daytime programme including the
Clubnight in the evening.
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The detailed film, performance and lecture programme will be published soon on
www.fulldome-festival.de.
There will be video recordings of the events. Films contain strobe effects and fast image sequences.
Anna Green, Zeiss-Planetarium Jena
Your place in the Cosmos today. The stars over Jena explained.
Anna Green is Manager of Educational Concepts & Live Programs at the Zeiss-Planetarium Jena, bringing more than 15 years of experience in fixed and mobile planetariums across the US and Europe. She holds an M.A. in Museum Studies plus a Professional Educator License, and specializes in live interactive programs, curriculum-based education, and space history. Previously, Anna served as Manager of the James S. McDonnell Planetarium in Saint Louis, where she developed inclusive programming for visitors with low vision and who are blind. A twice-elected board member of the International Planetarium Society, she is a recognized advocate for innovation and access in the planetarium field. Anna believes that space science should be accessible to everyone and hopes her work sparks curiosity about the universe.
Anna Green
David Reiterer, Lucy Dreams Performance Artist
Why we think we need to perform in the Dome. David explains why the Austrian performence trio Lucy Dreams concluded that it’s time to perform in the dome.. The musical landscape is being reshaped by the evolving relationship between humans and machines. Lucy Dreams embodies this transformation through a seamless fusion of analog and digital art, with Lucy — an active artificial band member — at the heart of their creative vision. The trio‘s SonicWaveArtPop style is an expressive and immersive medium that captivates the senses while posing socially relevant questions. The band has brought its signature sound to stages across Canada, Japan, Europe, and the UK – and proably soon to the dome stage.
https://www.lucydreams.net/
Anke Schiemann
Filmmaker &
Luminescence
Media Artist
LUMINESCENCE Mixed Reality show. Anke will talk about LUMINESCENCE that recently won the Dome Fest West performance award. LUMINESCENCE merges the worlds of live concert, environmental and human interconnectedness, and audience engagement. It explores the entanglement of climate change and the impact of oceanic currents on our planet. Through a unique combination of live performance, interactive technology, storytelling and the shared creativity of the audience, LUMINESCENCE aims to captivate and spark conversations while fostering a deeper connection between interdisciplinary art, nature, and human emotion.
https://vimeo.com/1123217009?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
ankeschiemann.de
Susanne Paech, Kelley Francis, Anke Schiemann, David Reiterer, Anna Öst, Micky Remann
Is full-dome wow enough for the next 20 years?
Looking back at 20 years of the Jena FullDome Festival goes hand in hand with looking to the future of the next 20 years. The dedicated panellists will discuss whether the art, science and content of full-dome media have sparked the 'spherical revolution' (as Pedro Zaz has suggested), or whether it has never really left its cradle. 360° full-dome media has always been considered cutting-edge technology that will eventually become mainstream. But does that promise hold true? Are we missing something? What is the relationship between pioneering efforts and profitable business? Who are the game changers waiting in the wings? Will they take off?
MEMORY & RESISTANCE
What do we carry within us? What has shaped us? From the trenches of war to the Day of the Dead, these films ask about origin, trauma, loss and dignity.
TIME
Creative Planet
Trailer: 03:00 Min
Poland
TIME is an immersive journey through the nature of time—from daily rhythms of nature to the vast structure of the Universe. It follows humanity’s attempts to measure time and explores modern physics, where relativity, entropy, and spacetime reshape our understanding. The film concludes by reflecting on how the human mind perceives the present and how we choose to spend our time.
senses alight
Bosgelmez, Gülberk Elif
New talent: 03:00 Min
Germany
The film is based on an original poem written by the filmmaker. It was initially created as an illustration and later developed into the animated film senses alight. The animation was originally produced for a full-dome format as part of the project Framebreakers / eXtatic Dreaming, within the framework of the 8th Festival of Animation Berlin, in collaboration with the Animation Class at Kunsthochschule Kassel.
ALTARS of Memory and Magic
Damné Jesús Pérez Irigoyen/ Fanny Alle/ Dessignare Studio
Short film: 09:00 Min
Mexico
In this animated fulldome experience, the guardian spirits of the Day of the Dead reveal the origins and symbolism of four essential offerings.
Synopsis
Discover the origins of four essential offerings: the marigold flower, the sugar skull, the papel picado, and the pan de muerto.
Through immersive imagery, imagined aromas, and vibrant colors, the audience discovers how each element becomes a bridge between the world of the living and that of those who have departed.
Battlefield
Vautier, François/ Sahel, Jeremy/ France TV
Full feature: 22:00 Min
France
Verdun, 1916. Right before a battle, Julien, a military phone operator, is called to the front lines to repair a command post phone. He will be dragged into the battle, into the madness, and will have to fight for his own survival.
Little Eve: Stories of Planet Earth
Klara Juzova/ Martin Juza/ Krutart
Full feature: 30:00 Min
Czechia
Planet Earth is a truly fascinating place. In the vastness of the universe, it is the only known world where life has flourished. But how did it all begin? That is what our new fulldome film, Little Eve, is all about. With two distinct versions, it offers a captivating experience for both families and school audiences, blending adventure with scientific discovery.
Eve is small, but her problems feel huge. She is not sure she can stand up to the wolves, those rough, pushy types who always seem to pick on her. So she runs away. But her mother understands. To help, she shares three stories that reveal the wonders of life and the strength even the smallest can possess.
In the Family version, Eve’s mother tells her about the tiny cell that made life possible, the brave Tiktaalik, a fish that conquered the land, and the clever squirrel who outlasted the mighty dinosaurs. These stories show how even the smallest creatures can change the world.
In the School version, the stories begin with our Solar System. Jupiter is the largest planet, but Venus shines the brightest. Saturn’s rings are stunning, but Mars has the tallest mountain. And Earth? Not the biggest, not the most beautiful, but the only one where life exists.
Little Eve listens, eyes wide, and begins to wonder. What if she’s stronger than she ever imagined?
THE WONDERS OF LIFE
What makes our planet so unique? This block celebrates life on Earth. from the origins of evolution through the age of the dinosaurs. Science becomes adventure, biology becomes poetry.
Each River Holds a Memory
Velázquez, Fernando/ Tiriri Rayo/
Short film: 07:00
Brazil
Each River Holds a Memory is based on a myth of the Marikito Tapuyá people, from the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, in which the river is understood as a living archive. According to this narrative, a great snake inhabits the river and cares for the bodies of Indigenous people murdered during the colonial process. Many of these deaths occurred in the context of forced catechization, when those who resisted or attempted to flee were thrown into the river from the hilltop where the church stands.
In a context in which many Indigenous peoples continue to struggle for rights and the restitution of their territories, the work updates this myth by understanding Indigenous cosmologies as living systems of knowledge, capable of reorganizing ways of thinking about the body, memory, history, and territory.
The chants present in the work, performed by the voice of the juremeiro José Neri, evoke the encantados — ancestors who, after death, become active forces guiding the community. Among them is Malunguinho, king of the forests, a historical leader of Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous resistance during the colonial period, later venerated as a spiritual entity and a central reference in the traditions of Jurema. This ritual, through the ingestion of a vegetal preparation, chants, dances, and prayers, promotes expanded states of consciousness and constitutes a central episteme of this culture.
Dinosaurs: An Adventure from Another Era
Vidal, Juan Carlos/ Bascuñán, Alejandro/
Full feature: 39:00 Min
Chile
“Dinosaurs: An Adventure from Another Era” is a fulldome cinematic experience that transforms scientific learning into an immersive journey through deep time. When three curious birds, Avelina (a red cardinal), Yucatina (a Parrot of Yucatan and Amazonia), and Planetito (a little duck), set out to understand what truly happened to the dinosaurs, the eccentric Professor Gallileo Gallilei guides them through prehistoric environments through the power of imagination and scientific knowledge. Audiences travel across ancient landscapes, encounter feathered dinosaurs in motion, and discover how fossil evidence allows scientists to reconstruct millions of years of evolution. The narrative culminates in an immersive recreation of the impact event that marked the end of the Cretaceous period, revealing that extinction was not an absolute ending: modern birds represent the only surviving lineage of dinosaurs. Specifically designed for the fulldome environment, the film combines scientific accuracy, humor, and spectacular visuals to inspire wonder, curiosity, and scientific thinking in audiences of all ages.
Life: The Greatest Story
Howell, Tommy/ Rutherford-Orrock, Ben
Full feature: 28:00 Min
United Kingdom
Life is mysterious. Life is unique. Our film takes the audience a journey, from the beginning of life on our own Earth, to the distant planets and moons of our solar system, and then even deeper into the unknown! Beautifully narrated by actress Alex Kingston (Doctor Who, ER) this ground-breaking film, animated and produced by a single filmmaker, has wowed our own visitors - we can't wait to share it with the rest of the world!
BETWEEN WORLDS
What is time? What lies beyond the visible? Where does reality end? Scientifically grounded and poetic. From quantum physics of everyday life to the last stars in a dying universe.
Onyx Orbital
Felix Niemeyer/ Dominik Malue
Short film: 06:00
Germany
Exploring the fabric of the universe.
Built with a custom rendering engine that allows live rendering even at high resolutions.
Updates/Refinements before screening probable.
Reality Looks Back
JESPPESEN, Anne/ ZAREI, Omid/ Superposotion XR Studio
Full feature: 21:00 Min
Denmark
When you watch a particle, it behaves. Look away, and it slips into something stranger. This story drifts through the quantum echoes of everyday life—split déjà-vu, Schrödinger’s hamster, and the soft clouds of possibility just out of reach. Anne, a quiet observer, re-watches all the subtle, uncanny ways we try to make sense of reality’s shifting fabric.
Director's biography Anne is an award-winning storyteller with a focus on tactile sound; shaping audio-spaces that combine the vastness with micro-details of everyday life.
The Last Symphony of Light
Edelman, Eric/ Orozco Cano, Juan Felipe/ Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in cooperation with Double Dome
Short film: 08:00 Min
United States
A fundamental reason to foster a STEM-focused humanity can be found in our future. On the scale of billions and trillions of years, there are daunting cosmic events we will encounter and only overcome if we decide to take long-term steps toward progress.
This film mixes scientific knowledge with artistic speculation, taking us from the modern-day Earth to black hole societies, with the goal of getting us thinking in positive and creative directions about the deep future.
A Leap Into The Void
Sergey Prokofyev/ HYPERRAUM.TV and Foundation Herbert W. Franke
Short fim: 15:00 Min
Germany
This narrated Sci-Fi short story is about questions of human existence and the creator of the universe. It is a perfect symbiosis of a profoundly philosophical short story by the renowned German writer, Herbert W. Franke, and the exceptional immersive artist, Sergey Prokofyev.
NEONTROPY
Helmchen, Rocco/ Kraas, Johannes
Short film: 09:00 Min
Germany
Luck, chance and randomness are ways humans perceive entropy at play. Stylized visuals based on 3D scans, 360 footage and generative algorithms merge “Sin City” and the Mojave Desert into fragmented, shifting worlds in constant transformation. Carried by an original sound design interpreting these ideas, the work is reflecting on decay, probability and our constant, unstoppable movement along the arrow of time.
JANUS-Award Gala July 17, 19:00 – 20:00 (CEST)
The winners of the 2026 JANUS-Awards will be announced – join us to find out who they are!
For artists and producers, this may be the most nail-biting moment of the festival: has my film won the prestigious JANUS Award, known as the Oscar of the fulldome world?
The answer will be revealed at this very moment, and the whole world will be watching!
The event will be streamed live for free
FULLDOME FESTIVAL 2026 — CLUB NIGHT
100 Years of Planetarium Jena · 20 Years of Fulldome Festival
We’re celebrating with a launch powerful enough to shake the stars and recalibrate collective consciousness. A night suspended between zero gravity, supernova energy, and immersive 360° fusion.
A cosmic collision of bass, light, and shared transcendence.
MAIN FLOOR · SPACESHIP
Dark dopamine instead of rocket fuel.
Fennek breaks the sound barrier from the very first beat, bending genres and expectations alike. Pressure waves deeper than black holes. Crescendos with gravitational pull — hypnotic, trance-inducing, impossible to escape. Floor energy: extraterrestrial.
His style. His vision. Not of this world: Oliver Koletzki.
Melodic, frequency-driven, and weightlessly beautiful. A sound drifting between euphoria, depth, and interstellar motion. The orbit softens, the horizon expands, and the dancefloor lifts off as one — a moment suspended between cosmic dawn and collective levitation.
Moving between weightlessness and Mach 10, LydiaM pilots the journey to the edge of the universe. Techno as fuel. Hard techno as propulsion. Frequencies intensify, heart rates accelerate, and the main floor reaches light speed.
Meanwhile, Anasofiacalix, Fairlix, and Meisam Nemati transform the spaceship with immersive 360° visuals designed to ignite synapses and expand perception. Galactic streams of light, fractal dimensions, and cosmic landscapes merge into a second atmosphere made of sound, motion, and mind expansion.
Timetable
23:00 · Fennek — Dark · Hypnotic · Underground
01:00 · Oliver Koletzki — Tech House · Deep House · Melodic Techno
03:00 · LydiaM — Hypnotic Techno · Hard Techno
SECOND FLOOR · GARDEN
Mycelium of the Galaxy
While the spaceship races through hyperspace, the cosmos grows from below. Organic, warm, trippy, and deeply physical. A psychedelic root network of groove, mist, rhythm, and collective pulse.
Lukas Geister opens the deeper layers. Hypnotic loops and melodic pressure intertwine into a set that doesn’t push forward — it pulls inward. No outside. No stillness. Only rotation.
Phoebe brings the Garden Floor into full bloom. Disco molecules, house DNA, and garage enzymes fuse into a warm, organic sound rich with color and life. Disco for 2026 — carefully cultivated, unmistakably unique, and ready to take root in both mind and heart.
Warning: this sound leaves spores.
Max Bambi guides the journey deeper into the afterglow: deep, magnetic, physical, and floating. Basslines like dark matter. Melodies like particles of light drifting through the fog. A floor for those who don’t just hear the rave — but disappear inside it.
Timetable
23:00 · Lukas Geister — Hardgroove · Trance · Hypnotic · Melodic House
01:00 · Phoebe — Disco House · Dark Disco · Nu Disco
03:00 · Max Bambi — Deep House · Melodic House · Techno
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18+ Admission
Safe Space Policy
We are committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment and do not tolerate any form of discrimination.
An Awareness Team will be present throughout the event and can be identified by their yellow armbands. If you need support or assistance at any time, please feel free to approach them — they are there for you.
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Important Notice
Video recordings will take place during the event. The visual productions may contain strobe lighting effects and rapidly changing imagery.
