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, since 2014 she is CEO and shareholder. In 2020, Danielle Giuliani joined as shareholder and producer. With the successful production of various feature and documentary films (Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey into the Desert, Youth Topia, Monte Verità, 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, 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, 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, financing new feature films by renowned international directors and coproducing the feature films Mother’s Baby by Johanna Moder, Do you believe in angels, Mr Drowak? by Nicolas Steiner, The Tasters by Silvio Soldini, and The Prank by Benjamin Heisenberg. All four films are in production or post-production.