The Secrets of Gravity

Twelve-year-old Limbradur sneaks into the Albert Einstein Museum one night and meets ALBYX3, a small robot who knows everything about gravity. What follows is a journey through space and time — and one of the clearest examples of what Softmachine does best: taking genuinely difficult science and making it genuinely fun to watch.

Directed by Dr. Peter Popp, The Secrets of Gravity blends scientifically accurate storytelling with animation built specifically for the fulldome format, where a 360° environment does a lot of the emotional heavy lifting that a flat screen can’t.

The response from the international festival circuit backs that up. Between 2016 and 2019, the film picked up recognition at the Russian Fulldome Festival (Best Film and Audience Award), the Munich Film Festival’s White Elephant, IPMF South Korea, the Astrofilm Festival in Piešťany, and Fulldome Festival Germany, including its Brno edition.

Why it matters for you: Science communication is our specialty. If your venue needs to make a hard concept land with a general audience — physics, biology, astronomy, whatever it is — this is the model: story first, science woven in, format used deliberately.