CHANELLE 
EIDENBENZ
CHANELLE EIDENBENZ
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IN DEVELOPMENT

A mother disappears into psychosis. Her eldest daughter fights to save her. The youngest keeps her distance.

90’ feature / absurd drama / CH / The Friend Film


with the support of BAK Bundesamt für Kultur, ZFS Zürcher Filmstiftung and Drehbuchwerkstatt München

IN DEVELOPMENT

Against the dystopian backdrop of screaming babies and outdated breast milk, two women’s opposing journeys of grief collide.


Subverting the trope of the femme fatale, MILK NOIR explores the crimes of raging bodies that refuse to submit.

feature thriller / film noir / UK, CH

shortlisted for the BBC bridge to industry scheme

MAYBE BABY FROM 5 to 7

While masturbating Elsa finds a condom inside her. Who left it there?

short / in post production

RESORT

After mum's most recent psychotic episode a dysfunctional family of three tries their hardest to holiday together.

EN, 20’ NFTS / 2024

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WHO FEEDS

A pregnant couple with firm feminist ideals is thrown by the father to be's newly achieved ability to lactate.

EN, 10’ / NFTS

EMBODIED

Refusing to submit to the image of an overlooked old woman TONA bares all to the gazing eyes of a life drawing class.

EN, 11’ NFTS / 2025

selected for the 2026 showcase of Women in Film and TV UK

ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

IRNA seeks refuge in her own world whose center is ELIAS, a rubber doll. While Irna holds on to her own reality with all her might JAGO is desperately trying to make his mother understand.

CH, 20’ ZHdK / 2018

nominated for the German cinematography prize 2020

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ACTION OF 
REMEMBERING

The sound of a wrapping paper evolves into something more disturbing as a woman re-remembers the evening in her hotel room.

EN, 8’ / NFTS

BEDSHARE

A gay guy rents out half of his bed denying himself real connection until it hits him in the face.

EN, 4’30 NFTS / 2023