Gillibert, who has worked with filmmakers such Hansen-Love, Carax, Olivier Assayas, Deniz Gamze Ergüven and Pietro Marcello, says it’s a crucial time for independent producers to work closer than ever with auteurs. The acquisition, whose figure was not unveiled, was backed by Impala, as well as Coficiné and IFCIC.
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“It’s a company with an impressive track record with films that have won Oscar, Cesar and BAFTA awards, and their film library is full of cinematic jewels which will make shine bright around the world,” says Gillibert, who said the negotiations to acquire the banner started a year ago. “For 60 years, Les Films du Losange has maintained a level of quality and long-lasting bonds with auteurs such as Haneke, Rohmer and Rivette that no other company in Europe has achieved,” says Gillibert, adding that as a distribution company, Les Films du Losange has also contributed to establish directors like Lars von Trier in France. In total, the company has a library of about 100 prestige films many of which have won a flurry of international awards, including Haneke’s “Amour,” which won Cannes’ Palme d’or, as well as an Oscar and Golden Globe for best foreign-language film “The White Ribbon,” another film by Haneke produced by Les Films du Losange which won the Palme d’Or and a Golden Globe Rohmer’s “Le rayon vert,” winner of the Venice Golden Lion Agnieszka Holland’s Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe-winning “Europa Europa.” The banner also distributed in France many award-winning movies, notably Mia Hansen-Love’s “L’avenir,” produced by Gillibert, which won the Silver Bear for best director as well as Von Trier’s cult pics such as the Palme d’Or-winning “Dancer in the Dark” and Cannes jury prizewinning “Breaking The Waves.”