International Documentary Film Festival
April 19 to 26, 2026
Kaptol Boutique Cinema, Zagreb

Elon Musk Unveiled – The Tesla Experiment (Elon Musk Unveiled – The Tesla Experiment)

Andreas Pichler

Elon Musk Unveiled – The Tesla Experiment

For the first time, Elon Musk Unveiled pulls back the curtain on Musk’s empire. Close confidants, whistleblowers, victims, and former high-ranking Tesla employees – including Cristina Balan, John Bernal, Craig Davis, Esben Pederson and Rachel Konrad – publicly share their stories. They speak against Musk offering unprecedented insights into the system he built, a system where unchecked ambition and secrecy put lives at risk. Their testimonies expose hidden data and buried defects in the race for self-driving cars, where unchecked ambition costs lives and challenges Big Tech’s most powerful titan.

Germany 2025, '90

DIRECTOR: Andreas Pichler

SCENARIO: Andreas Pichler, Anne Von Petersdorff, Christian Beetz

CAMERA: Jakob Stark, Tom Bergmann

MONTAGE: Johannes Hiroshi Nakajima, Beatrice Segolini, Nicolás Nørgaard Staffolani

MUSIC: Henning Fuchs

PRODUCERS: Christian Beetz

PRODUCTION: Beetz Brothers Film Production

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

IDFA
FIPADOC
Goteborg FF

Andreas Pichler

Andreas Pichler

Andreas Pichler is an award-winning director (Grimme Prize, Prix Italia, Prix Europe Nominee, among others) based in Italy and working in Germany. He gained international recognition with acclaimed films such as The Venice Syndrome (2012, director, writer), The Milk System (2017, director, writer), which was shown in cinemas and on Netflix, Alcohol – The Magic Potion (2019, director, writer), and Dangerously Close (2023, director, writer), a major success in Italian cinemas. All his works are international co-productions that have been screened at leading festivals and broadcast worldwide.

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