On the Slate
As a production company we love bringing your stories to life while simultaneously telling ours.
We are proud to share that our first Feature Love, Bees & Fuckery in co-production with Prickly Pears Film [US], was . nominated for best feature and had it's World Premier at the Chelsea Film Festival New York.
"Love, Bees & Fuckery" is a mytho-clitical shitstorm for the senses and takes a new look at the emancipation of pleasure within the a group of friends on the verge of 40 - one orgasm at time.
Dir: Marem Hassler, Producer: Ainara Landon, DOP: Marko Alonso
Teaser Love, Bees & Fuckery
Framing up on...
Films with a Tatendrang touch.
Completed/ Festival Attendance
Duo (10 Wins, 12 Nominations)
15min Short, Director: Karl E.Landler
Viscus Film/ Tatendrang Films
When Melanie, begrudgingly agrees to give Marcel a French Mime, who doesn't speak English, a ride to his audition in Las Vegas, they both have to overcome their differences to prevent this trip from being a disaster.
Sitting Duck
15min Short, Director: Karl E.Landler
Viscus Film/ Tatendrang Films
During their Christmas diner, Mathieu gets dumped by his girlfriend for his inability to grow up. His clumsy attempt to save his relationship unleashes a chain of events that pushes the boundaries of insanity.
POST-PRODUCTION
Projects we are excited to have in various stages of post-production and ready to submit to the international festival circuit this year.
MUTE
30min Short (US/Swiss)
Dir. Marem Hassler
Viscus Film/ Tatendrang Films
A woman, suffering from Misophonia (hatred of sound) is on the verge of losing her family and puts her trust in the system.
When it fails her, she resorts to unconventional measures, blurring the lines of what is socially acceptable and instinctively necessary.
Genre: Dramatic Short
The Exodus of the Ladybird
15min Short (US/Swiss)
Dir. Marem Hassler
Viscus Film/ Tatendrang Films
He took her breath away. Now she wants it back.
When Ladybird's husband pulls the plug on their seven year marriage, his complete absence forces her to find closure in uncharted territory.
Genre: Experimental Short
IN DEVELOPMENT
Jürg Hassler- Ein Sehnsuchts- Objekt
When Jurg Hassler's two filmmaker daughters discover his movies for the first time, at a screening celebrating his life's work as a filmmaker, they are confronted -through their grown up eyes, by how little they know about their father. Intrigued and inspired they decide to make a movie about him. As they begin working together, getting to know each other - a new energy descends and fires up their father's creative mind. And he has a proposition, that seems impossible to refuse: Come out of retirement and make one more film - together. As a filmmaker family.
Documentary
Devil's Bridge
Zu Kreuze Fahren
Based on the Swiss myth of the devil’s bridge: -From the jagged edges of the Swiss Alpes, the devil is gunning for retirement and finding a suitable successor is proving harder than he thought – especially if there is that outstanding debt of a human soul, he neglected to claim at the "devil's bride in Canton URI- one of the founding canton's of Switzerland.
Exploring a new take on what it takes to do the devil's job, social media staged as the devil's greatest invention, the desire to be filled with human feelings -the human experience, that although it might be flawed has this particular devil very fascinated.
Dark Dramedy
Zu Kreuze Fahren ist ein hybrider Kinofilm über Nicole Knuth – Kleinkünstlerin, Bühnenrebellin, Enkelin einer Schauspielerlegende. Auf der Suche nach künstlerischer Erneuerung beginnt sie ein neues Stück zu schreiben. Doch als sie die Hilfe einer KI in Anspruch nimmt, verschwimmen Realität und Fiktion – und sie verliert sich in der glänzenden, perfekten Version ihrer selbst. Spiegelbilder tauchen auf, surreale Begegnungen entfalten sich und Nicole beginnt, mit ihrer eigenen Menschlichkeit zu ringen.
Ein Spielfilm verwoben mit dokumentarischer Wirklichkeit- wo echte Momente, surreale Wendungen und inszenierte Szenen ineinanderfliessen und die Realität unerwarted hereinbricht. Eine Hommage an die Kleinkunst – und an den Mut, unvollkommen zu bleiben.
Rinse + Repeat
In a quiet Swiss dialysis center, a power outage sparks an unlikely revolution.
Tomasin, a spirited nurse and amateur actress, confiscates phones and turns her ward into a circle of connection.
Patients facing death start facing life — through laughter, heartbreak, and absurd rituals.
Rinse and Repeat is a bittersweet dramatic comedy about routine, rebellion, and finding family in the last place you'd expect.
TV Series
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When Giuseppina Togni uncovers a forgotten trunk linking her to the Red Priest—a fiery-haired cleric who fathered generations of children and left behind a living legacy marked by red hair—she embarks on a journey through lost histories and hidden bloodlines, tracing how one man’s story still shapes the identity of a Swiss valley today.