TELLFILM GMBH
SWITZERLAND
CONTACT
KATRIN RENZ
CEO/ Producer
STEFAN JÄGER
Producer/ Director
DANIELLE GIULIANI
Producer
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COMPANY PROFILE
Tellfilm was founded in 1997 under the name handsUP! Film Production. In 2007, the company was restructured and renamed tellfilm. Stefan Jäger has been managing director since its start. Katrin Renz has been working as a producer and dramaturge for Tellfilm since 2007, and since 2014 she has been CEO and shareholder. In 2020, Danielle Giuliani joined as a shareholder and producer. With the successful production of various feature and documentary films (Ingeborg Bachmann - JOURNEY INTO THE DESERT, YOUTH TOPIA, MONTE VERITÁ, BLUE MY MIND, ANIMALS, and more, TV films (Tatort), as well as documentaries and docu-series for Swiss television, tellfilm has successfully sold its films internationally and screened them worldwide at festivals such as the Berlinale or Locarno. In recent years, tellfilm has increasingly produced co-productions as a minority partner. Among them, is CALCINCULO (IT-CH), which had its world premiere at the Panorama 2022 of the Berlinale. The int. co-production (CH-AT-D-LUX) Ingeborg Bachmann by Margarethe von Trotta premiered in competition of the Berlin IFF 2023, and the first feature GLORIA! by Margherita Vicario premiered in competition of the Berlin IFF 2024. The coproduction Simply Do It by Reto Caduff is currently in post-production. As of late, tellfilm is developing two series and co-producing the feature films MOTHERHOOD, by Johanna Moder, DO YOU BELIEVE IN ANGELS, MR. DROWAK? by Nicolas Steiner, and THE PRANK by Benjamin Heisenberg. All three films are scheduled to be filmed in 2024 and are fully financed.
COMPANY HIGHLIGHTS
INGEBORG BACHMANN- JOURNEY INTO THE DESSERT 2023
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Drama
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Screenplay: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Vicky Krieps, Ronald Zehrfeld, Tobias Resch, Basil Eidenbenz
The remarkable and charismatic Ingeborg Bachmann has conquered the male-dominated bastion of German-language literature with her poetry. Though still young, Ingeborg Bachmann is at the peak of her career when she meets the famous playwright Max Frisch. Their love is passionate, but professional and personal friction begins to disrupt the harmony. When Ingeborg is struggling, her friends are there to help, including Hans Werner Henze and the young Adolf Opel, a Viennese journalist and man of literature. They travel to the desert together. On this journey, she finds a way back to herself and – above all – to her writing.
Berlin. Int. Film Festival 2023 (competition), Hong Kong IFF, Istanbul IFF, Bari IFF, Uruguay IFF, Beijing IFF, Seattle IFF, Flying Broom Int. Women's FF, Shanghai IFF, Seoul Int. Women's FF, Zurich FF, La Rouche-sur-Yon IFF, Riga IFF, Sao Paolo IFF, Tallinn Glack Nights FF, Augenblick Festival, Trieste FF and more
MONTE VERITÀ 2022
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Period Drama
Director: Stefan Jäger
Screenplay: Kornelija Naraks
Cast: Maresi Riegner, Max Hubacher, Julia Jentsch, Hannah Herzsprung, Joel Basman
1906. Hanna wants nothing more than to free herself from her bourgeois corset. When she flees to the notorious Monte Verità, leaving her daughters behind, she is initially reluctant to accept the free lifestyle of those seeking meaning. But when she begins to photograph the guests, she grows beyond herself. In her devotion to art, she has to ask herself: can she return to her family without giving up herself?
Locarno IFF (Piazza Grande), Trento FF (Closing Night Film), German Film Festival in Australia
BLUE MY MIND 2017
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Coming-Of-Age, Fantasy
Director: Lisa Brühlmann
Screenplay: Lisa Brühlmann
Cast: Luna Wedler, Zoë Pastelle Holthuizen, Regula Grauwiller, Georg Scharegg, Martin Rapold, Rachel Braunschweig
15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation that puts her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, she is soon forced to accept that nature is far more powerful than her.
San Sebastian IFF 2017 (New Directors), Zurich Film Festival - Awards: WINNER GOLDEN EYE, CRITIC’S CHOICE AWARD, FILMPREIS DER ZÜRCHER KIRCHEN, Fantastic Film Fest Austin, 41. Mostra Sao Paulo IFF, Festa del cinema di Roma - Alice nella cittá Premio Camera D'oro 2017 (winner) , IFF Braunschweig - Deutsch-französischer Jugendpreis KINEMA 2018 (Winner), Brussels, Festival international du film fantastique, Prix 7e Parallèle 2018 (Winner), Saarbrücken, Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, best director 2018 (Winner), Swiss Film Awards 2018: best film, best screenplay, best actress, and a lot more int. festival participations
DO YOU BELIEVE IN ANGELS (IN PRODUCTION)
Genre: Tragic Comedy
Director: Nicolas Steiner
Screenplay: Bettina Gundermann
Cast: Luna Wedler, Karl Markovics, Jan Bülow, Lars Eidinger, Dominique Pinon
Welcome to the grim world of Hugo Drowak. A misanthrope, boozer, and stinking old good-for-nothing. We invite you on a fanciful journey replete with romance, gloom, and poetry. A story about longing.
THE FLYING MOUNTAIN (IN FINANCING)
Genre: Drama
Director: Nicolas Steiner
Screenplay: Nicolas Steiner
Cast: Barry Ward, Moe Dunford
Two brothers’ search for the truth leads them from the cliffs of Ireland to the mountains of Tibet, the chill of death and the mystery of love.
THE CHILDREN OF LA HILLE (IN DEVELOPMENT)
Genre: Period Drama
Director: Stefan Jäger
Screenplay: Carola Diekmann
In 1941, the dutiful 30-year-old Rose Näf from Glarus takes over a children's colony with 100 Jewish children in southern France. As the Nazi threat intensifies, she breaks all the rules. A dramatic race against time begins.