---
name: "Tim Fehlbaum"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tim-fehlbaum"
fi1m_id: "tim-fehlbaum"
imdb_id: "nm2959497"
tmdb_id: 568692
wikidata_id: "Q1310238"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "1 January 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-30T22:25:07.236526+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Tim Fehlbaum

## Identity

Tim Fehlbaum

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tim-fehlbaum
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tim-fehlbaum
- **IMDb ID:** nm2959497
- **TMDB ID:** 568692
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1310238
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Fehlbaum, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1310238, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2959497/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/568692

Producer and director. Born 1 January 1982 in Basel, Switzerland.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1982, Basel, Switzerland
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Fehlbaum, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1310238, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2959497/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/568692

## Streaming the US now

- **Paramount+:** [*September 5*](https://film.one/film/september-5.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Tim Fehlbaum is a Swiss film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in 1982 in Basel, he studied directing from 2002 to 2009 at the University of Television and Film Munich, during which he made several short films and music videos and worked as a camera operator on documentaries.

Fehlbaum made his feature debut in 2011 with the post-apocalyptic horror film *Hell*, which he also co-wrote. His second feature, the science-fiction thriller *Tides* (also known as *The Colony*), premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2021. He co-wrote and directed *September 5* (2024), a film about the ABC Sports coverage of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *September 5* (2024), Fi1m 74, Writer, Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/september-5.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *September 5* (2024), Director, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/september-5.md)
- *The Colony* (2021), Producer, Writer, Director
- *Flicker* (2016), Director
- *Hell* (2011), Director, Screenplay
- *Wo ist Freddy?* (2006), Director
- *Nicht meine Hochzeit* (2004), Director, Writer
- *For Julian* (2003), Writer, Director, Editor
- *Black Box*, Director

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2025: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *September 5*

### Other awards — 2 won

- German Film Award for Best Direction 2025: German Film Award for Best Direction (won), for *September 5*
- German Film Award for Best Screenplay 2025: German Film Award for Best Screenplay (won), for *September 5*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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