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Planet Earth has turned into a lifeless desert with no living organisms, so a special rescue mission needs to be conducted. The mission is led by none other than the most powerful mushroom in the universe with the ability to resurrect Earth. In this interactive VR created in collaboration with a team of mycologists, the viewer becomes the mushroom saviour itself.

In their latest project, leading VR studio Baobab adapted the classic fairy tale about Baba Yaga. The wicked witch, who cursed a life-giving forest, is voiced by Kate Winslet. The viewer becomes Magda, daughter of a mortally ill queen. Magda must find a cure, face her fear and escape the malevolent witch’s bubbling cauldron.

A short-sighted boy with an accordion bigger than himself on his back sets out on an adventurous journey to save his sister who has fallen into the shadows. The most effective weapon the boy can use against darkness is music. The interactive story combines the game with nebulas, music and expressionist fairy-tale visuals.

The winner of last year’s Venice International Film Festival takes the viewer on a poetic journey to the household of a hangman who comes home after work. While exploring his place, we happen upon five wordless stories in which we become voyeurs of human intimacy and repeatedly face uncomfortable revelations. The project is inspired by a 1922 poem of the same name by Carl Sandburg.

Two brothers live in a strange surreal world where everything around them floats and falls like in a centrifuge. A fridge, a television, parts of a house. The brothers couldn’t be more different, yet they are close. They are even tied with a rope, so they don’t lose each other in the chaos. The viewer joins them in their world and becomes a part of their lives. But what happens when the brothers get separated one day?

This delicate story takes the viewer into a pastel world of a small child reminiscing about the complicated relationship with its mother. In individual memories, we find out that the single mother hit rock bottom, displayed fits of aggression and turned on the beloved child. A very personal story in which the viewer uses play cubes to rebuild painfully destroyed family trust and intimacy.

It all begins as an intimate family story. A young couple is expecting a child. They are preparing to become parents; they are putting together a crib. But the woman loses the baby. After some time, the situation repeats itself. The parents now believe that their babies are born in another dimension. This psychological sci-fi probe balancing between madness and mysticism is a virtual black hole into a traumatised human soul.

A mother must make a hard choice. Her child is seriously ill, but she can’t afford to buy the remedy from a shaman. So she takes her sword, bow and arrows and sets out to find a mysterious plant to make the cure. The story bordering between film and an interactive comic book is unique thanks to its panel composition and the fact that it was entirely illustrated in a virtual reality environment.

This animated monologue delivered in the COVID-19 state of emergency proves how strongly humans perceive their connection to nature during a time of forced isolation. This visually minimalist project is inspired by the Rorschach tests, which push the content of the monologue even closer to psychological self-analysis. This VR film is the latest project by US director Mika Johnson, who lives and works in the Czech Republic.