The Nymph | Branded Short | Greenpeace (2026) — Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

After a crushing defeat, the injured knight Nicholas encounters Ilo, a water nymph whose magic can heal, but at the cost of the surrounding nature dying. The two become friends, and finally lovers. However, their romance turns toxic when Nicholas returns from war and begins exploiting Ilo's magical powers to create gold and riches.

Consumed by his greed, the knight forgets what was once most important in his life. Will their love prevail?

CREDITS
CREW:
Director & Screenplay: Vanessa Stachel
Producer: Luca Merkle, Nadia Zimmermann
VFX-Producer: Georgia Noe
Director of Photography: Nico Schrenk
Editing: Tim Plaster
Film Music: Kilian Oser
Sound: Jonas Winkler
Production Design: Ines Ter Haar
Production Company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
VFX Producer: Tommy Lee John, Helge Kondziela, Tom Schönian
VFX Supervisor on Set: Sören Schmidt-Clausen
Audio Post Producer: Hetti Cook
Voiceover Engineer: Adam Hare
Intimacy Coordinator :David Steffen
Re-recording Mixer: Paul Powaljaew
VFX Compositing: Allegra David, Patrick Firmansyah, Jorn Schumann
Script Supervisor: Anastasia Nedeljkovic
Supervising Sounddesigner: Julian Berg, Marco Dahl

CAST/ Darsteller*in/Protagonist*in:
Jacob Haw-Wells, Peter Todd

A very special thanks to our supporting partners:
Simon und Paul GmbH - Simon Fessler and Tobias Paul
Heckler - Jamie Watson, Will Alexander and Charu Menon
Greenpeace Germany


#fantasy
#queer
#romantic

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