Ad Vitam (company)

Ad Vitam is a French independent film company headquartered in Paris. It specializes in film distribution, but has since expanded into film production.^[2] Since its founding in 1998, Ad Vitam has become one of France's leading independent distribution companies.^[3]

Ad Vitam

Company type	SAS[1]
Industry	Film
Founded	4 January 1998 (1998-01-04)[1]
Founder	Gregory Gajos Arthur Hallereau Alexandra Henochsberg
Headquarters	71 rue de la Fontaine-au-Roi, 75011 Paris 11[1]
Divisions	Ad Vitam Distribution Ad Vitam Production
Website	www.advitamdistribution.com

History

Ad Vitam was founded in 1998 by Alexandra Henochsberg, Gregory Gajos and Arthur Hallereau.^[3] The company distributed its first film on 27 January 1999, La révolution sexuelle n'a pas eu lieu, directed by Judith Cahen.^[4][5]

As of 2015, Ad Vitam had released more than eighty films in French cinemas. According to Gregory Gajos, head of acquisitions, the company's programming is driven by an impulse to "First, choose films that we like, then think about their success".^[6]

Ad Vitam is a member of the Syndicat des Distributeurs indépendants réunis européens (DIRE) alongside fourteen other distribution companies, including BAC Films, Capricci, Diaphana, Haut et Court, Le Pacte, Les Films du Losange, Memento Distribution, Pyramide Distribution, Rezo Films, SBS Distribution, The Jokers, UFO Distribution, Wild Bunch Distribution and Zinc.^[7]

Filmography

The films distributed by Ad Vitam are:^[4]

1990s

Ad Vitam films released in the 1990s

Release date[a]	Title	Director(s)	Notes	Ref.
27 January 1999	La révolution sexuelle n'a pas eu lieu	Judith Cahen

2000s

Ad Vitam films released in the 2000s

Release date[a]	Title	Director(s)	Notes	Ref.
2 February 2000	1999 Madeleine	Laurent Bouhnik
7 June 2000	Presque rien	Sébastien Lifshitz
27 December 2000	Laissons Lucie faire !	Emmanuel Mouret
25 April 2001	So Close to Paradise	Wang Xiaoshuai
13 June 2001	La Traversée	Sébastien Lifshitz
7 July 2001	The Attack of the Giant Moussaka	Panos H. Koutras
29 August 2001	Platform	Jia Zhangke
7 November 2001	L'Autre Monde	Merzak Allouache
9 January 2002	La ciénaga	Lucrecia Martel
27 March 2002	Delbaran	Abolfazl Jalili
8 May 2002	Memento Mori	Kim Tae-yong and Min Kyu-dong
26 June 2002	Venus Boyz	Gabriel Baur
24 July 2002	Maya	Digvijay Singh
18 September 2002	A Piece of Sky	Bénédicte Liénard
13 October 2002	La Dernière Lettre	Frederick Wiseman
22 January 2003	Unknown Pleasures	Jia Zhangke
12 February 2003	Terra incognita	Ghassan Salhab
26 February 2003	Un oso rojo	Adrián Caetano
30 April 2003	Dolls	Takeshi Kitano
3 December 2003	Bright Future	Kiyoshi Kurosawa
11 February 2004	S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine	Rithy Panh
14 April 2004	Wild Side	Sébastien Lifshitz
9 June 2004	Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks	Wang Bing
29 September 2004	Social Genocide	Fernando Solanas
13 October 2004	Aaltra	Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
24 November 2004	Tropical Malady	Apichatpong Weerasethakul
12 January 2005	Promised Land	Amos Gitai
2 March 2005	Darwin's Nightmare	Hubert Sauper
11 May 2005	Ultranova	Bouli Lanners
8 June 2005	The World	Jia Zhangke
13 July 2005	Voici venu le temps	Alain Guiraudie
26 October 2005	Regular Lovers	Philippe Garrel
1 February 2006	Sangre	Amat Escalante
8 March 2006	Sisters in Law	Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi
5 April 2006	Wassup Rockers	Larry Clark
13 September 2006	Avida	Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
27 September 2006	The Dignity of the Nobodies	Fernando Solanas
1 November 2006	Lady Chatterley	Pascale Ferran
6 December 2006	Offside	Jafar Panahi
3 January 2007	Le Dernier des fous	Laurent Achard
7 February 2007	L'Année suivante	Isabelle Czajka
14 February 2007	Substitute	Fred Poulet and Vikash Dhorasoo
21 March 2007	La Consultation	Hélène de Crécy
2 May 2007	Still Life	Jia Zhangke
4 July 2007	The Bubble	Eytan Fox
10 October 2007	This Is England	Shane Meadows
5 December 2007	Rue Santa Fé	Carmen Castillo
23 January 2008	Night Train	Diao Yinan
27 February 2008	Foster Child	Brillante Mendoza
9 April 2008	Disengagement	Amos Gitai
16 July 2008	Lake Tahoe	Fernando Eimbcke
1 October 2008	On War	Bertrand Bonello
29 October 2008	La Vie moderne	Raymond Depardon
3 December 2008	Lion's Den	Pablo Trapero
24 December 2008	All Tomorrow's Parties	Yu Lik-wai
24 December 2008	Louise Hires a Contract Killer	Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
14 January 2009	Parc	Arnaud des Pallières
4 February 2009	The Other One	Patrick-Mario Bernard and Pierre Trividic
18 March 2009	24 City	Jia Zhangke
15 April 2009	Let's Make Money	Erwin Wagenhofer
29 April 2009	The Headless Woman	Lucrecia Martel
10 June 2009	Story of Jen	François Rotger
29 July 2009	Somers Town	Shane Meadows
18 November 2009	Vincere	Marco Bellocchio
9 December 2009	Yuki et Nina	Nobuhiro Suwa and Hippolyte Girardot
30 December 2009	Going South	Sébastien Lifshitz	Also produced by Ad Vitam

2010s

Ad Vitam films released in the 2010s

Release date[a]	Title	Director(s)	Notes	Ref.
10 February 2010	C'est ici que je vis	Marc Recha
3 March 2010	Family Tree	Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
7 April 2010	Ajami	Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani
21 April 2010	Mammuth	Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
23 June 2010	Wandering Streams	Pascal Rabaté
22 September 2010	I Am Love	Luca Guadagnino
13 October 2010	Carmel	Amos Gitai
24 November 2010	Memory Lane	Mikhaël Hers
15 December 2010	Roses à crédit	Amos Gitai
19 January 2011	I Wish I Knew	Jia Zhangke
2 February 2011	Carancho	Pablo Trapero
2 March 2011	My Wife's Romance	Jamshed Usmonov
6 April 2011	La nostra vita	Daniele Luchetti
27 April 2011	Coup d'éclat	José Alcala
29 June 2011	Holidays by the Sea	Pascal Rabaté
20 July 2011	The Trip	Michael Winterbottom
21 September 2011	Twiggy	Emmanuelle Millet
23 November 2011	Tous au Larzac	Christian Rouaud
21 December 2011	Hell and Back Again	Danfung Dennis
28 December 2011	Heavenly Body	Alice Rohrwacher
4 January 2012	Take Shelter	Jeff Nichols
8 February 2012	Circumstance	Maryam Keshavarz
22 February 2012	Bullhead	Michaël R. Roskam
21 March 2012	Farewell, My Queen	Benoît Jacquot
2 May 2012	Miss Bala	Gerardo Naranjo
6 June 2012	Le Grand Soir	Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
31 October 2012	Les Enfants de la nuit	Caroline Deruas
31 October 2012	Maddened by His Absence	Sandrine Bonnaire
28 November 2012	Les Invisibles	Sébastien Lifshitz
2 January 2013	Confession of a Child of the Century	Sylvie Verheyde
6 February 2013	Tu honoreras ta mère et ta mère	Brigitte Roüan
20 February 2013	White Elephant	Pablo Trapero
20 March 2013	Les Coquillettes	Sophie Letourneur	Also produced by Ad Vitam
1 May 2013	Mud	Jeff Nichols
10 July 2013	A Hijacking	Tobias Lindholm
28 August 2013	Grand Central	Rebecca Zlotowski
2 October 2013	La Vie domestique	Isabelle Czajka
30 October 2013	A Castle in Italy	Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
11 December 2013	A Touch of Sin	Jia Zhangke
19 February 2014	Gloria	Sebastián Lelio
5 March 2014	Youth	Tom Shoval
23 April 2014	Night Moves	Kelly Reichardt
11 June 2014	Cupcakes	Eytan Fox
9 July 2014	Du goudron et des plumes	Pascal Rabaté
16 July 2014	Ablations	Arnold de Parscau
10 September 2014	Near Death Experience	Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
5 November 2014	'71	Yann Demange
19 November 2014	Eden	Mia Hansen-Løve
10 December 2014	May Allah Bless France!	Abd al Malik	Also produced by Ad Vitam
24 December 2014	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle
21 January 2015	Atlit	Shirel Amitaï
11 February 2015	The Wonders	Alice Rohrwacher
25 February 2015	À 14 ans	Hélène Zimmer
18 March 2015	Gente de bien	Franco Lolli
8 April 2015	The Night Watchman	Pierre Jolivet
17 June 2015	Mustang	Deniz Gamze Ergüven
8 July 2015	Difret	Zeresenay Mehari
22 July 2015	Des Apaches	Nassim Amaouche	Also produced by Ad Vitam
23 September 2015	Two Friends	Louis Garrel
14 October 2015	Par accident	Camille Fontaine
4 November 2015	Son of Saul	László Nemes
23 December 2015	Mountains May Depart	Jia Zhangke
13 January 2016	Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)	Eva Husson
27 January 2016	45 Years	Andrew Haigh
10 February 2016	Parisienne	Danielle Arbid
24 February 2016	Land Legs	Samuel Collardey
9 March 2016	The Assassin	Hou Hsiao-hsien
30 March 2016	Good Luck Algeria	Farid Bentoumi
13 April 2016	Paulina	Santiago Mitre
8 June 2016	Dark Inclusion	Arthur Harari
8 June 2016	Peshmerga	Bernard-Henri Lévy
22 June 2016	Tout de suite maintenant	Pascal Bonitzer
5 October 2016	Mercenary	Sacha Wolff
16 November 2016	Planetarium	Rebecca Zlotowski
28 December 2016	Sweet Dreams	Marco Bellocchio	Also produced by Ad Vitam
11 January 2017	Jamais contente	Émilie Deleuze	Also produced by Ad Vitam
25 January 2017	Lumière ! L'aventure commence	Thierry Frémaux
1 March 2017	Tramontane	Vatche Boulghourjian
29 March 2017	Pris de court	Emmanuelle Cuau	Also produced by Ad Vitam
12 April 2017	Smoke & Mirrors	Alberto Rodríguez
3 May 2017	De toutes mes forces	Chad Chenouga
12 July 2017	A Fantastic Woman	Sebastián Lelio
30 August 2017	The Price of Success	Teddy Lussi-Modeste
13 September 2017	Good Time	Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie
27 September 2017	Let the Sunshine In	Claire Denis	Also produced by Ad Vitam
8 November 2017	Until the Birds Return	Karim Moussaoui
15 November 2017	M	Sara Forestier
27 December 2017	The Royal Exchange	Marc Dugain	Also produced by Ad Vitam
31 January 2018	A Season in France	Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
14 March 2018	Razzia	Nabil Ayouch
11 April 2018	Kings	Deniz Gamze Ergüven	Also produced by Ad Vitam
25 April 2018	Lean on Pete	Andrew Haigh
2 May 2018	Cornélius, le meunier hurlant	Yann Le Quellec
10 May 2018	Sorry Angel	Christophe Honoré
30 May 2018	Une année polaire	Samuel Collardey
11 July 2018	Dark River	Clio Barnard
5 September 2018	Shéhérazade	Jean-Bernard Marlin
26 September 2018	I Feel Good	Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
7 November 2018	Happy as Lazzaro	Alice Rohrwacher	Also produced by Ad Vitam	[8][9]
5 December 2018	To the Ends of the World	Guillaume Nicloux
26 December 2018	A Faithful Man	Louis Garrel
16 January 2019	Non-Fiction	Olivier Assayas
30 January 2019	The Summer House	Valeria Bruni Tedeschi	Also produced by Ad Vitam	[10][11]
27 February 2019	Ash Is Purest White	Jia Zhangke
20 March 2019	Sunset	László Nemes
24 April 2019	Farewell to the Night	André Téchiné
8 May 2019	The Dead and the Others	João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora
12 June 2019	Zombi Child	Bertrand Bonello
19 June 2019	The Mustang	Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
3 July 2019	So Long, My Son	Wang Xiaoshuai
28 August 2019	An Easy Girl	Rebecca Zlotowski
2 October 2019	Atlantics	Mati Diop
30 October 2019	The Traitor	Marco Bellocchio	Also produced by Ad Vitam	[12][13]
18 December 2019	Notre dame	Valérie Donzelli

2020s

Ad Vitam films released in the 2020s

Release date[a]	Title	Director(s)	Notes	Ref.
8 January 2020	Un vrai bonhomme	Benjamin Parent
5 February 2020	Adam	Maryam Touzani
19 February 2020	Une mère incroyable	Franco Lolli
22 June 2020	System Crasher	Nora Fingscheidt
14 July 2020	The Salt of Tears	Philippe Garrel
29 July 2020	Tijuana Bible	Jean-Charles Hue	Also produced by Ad Vitam	[14][15]
26 August 2020	Delete History	Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
9 September 2020	Adolescents	Sébastien Lifshitz
2 June 2021	Home Front	Lucas Belvaux
30 June 2021	Sous le ciel d'Alice	Chloé Mazlo
28 July 2021	Profession du père	Jean-Pierre Améris
11 August 2021	Rouge	Farid Bentoumi
25 August 2021	La Terre des hommes	Naël Marandin
29 September 2021	Eugénie Grandet	Marc Dugain	Also produced by Ad Vitam
13 October 2021	L'Homme de la cave	Philippe Le Guay
17 November 2021	Casablanca Beats	Nabil Ayouch
8 December 2021	Lingui, The Sacred Bonds	Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
22 December 2021	The Crusade	Louis Garrel
5 January 2022	My Brothers and I	Yohan Manca	Also produced by Ad Vitam
26 January 2022	A Radiant Girl	Sandrine Kiberlain
9 February 2022	Golda Maria	Patrick Sobelman and Hugo Sobelman
9 March 2022	Softie	Samuel Theis
16 March 2022	Cinq Nouvelles du cerveau	Jean-Stéphane Bron
23 March 2022	Nobody Has to Know	Bouli Lanners
6 April 2022	En même temps	Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern	Also produced by Ad Vitam
13 April 2022	À l'ombre des filles	Étienne Comar
11 May 2022	Nitram	Justin Kurzel
27 July 2022	Sundown	Michel Franco
31 August 2022	Both Sides of the Blade	Claire Denis
21 September 2022	Other People's Children	Rebecca Zlotowski
12 October 2022	The Innocent	Louis Garrel
16 November 2022	Forever Young	Valeria Bruni Tedeschi	Also produced by Ad Vitam	[16][17]
30 November 2022	Cow	Andrea Arnold
14 December 2022	Corsage	Marie Kreutzer
4 January 2023	White Paradise	Guillaume Renusson
8 February 2023	La Grande Magie	Noémie Lvovsky
22 March 2023	The Blue Caftan	Maryam Touzani
12 April 2023	Soul Mates	André Téchiné	Also produced by Ad Vitam	[18][19]
26 April 2023	Quand tu seras grand	Andréa Bescond and Éric Métayer
14 June 2023	Stars at Noon	Claire Denis	Also produced by Ad Vitam	[20][21]
19 July 2023	Les Meutes	Kamal Lazraq
9 August 2023	Animalia	Sofia Alaoui
13 September 2023	The Plough	Philippe Garrel
27 September 2023	The Goldman Case	Cédric Kahn
1 November 2023	Kidnapped	Marco Bellocchio	Also produced by Ad Vitam	[22][23]
1 November 2023	Marx Can Wait	Marco Bellocchio
22 November 2023	All to Play For	Delphine Deloget
6 December 2023	La chimera	Alice Rohrwacher	Also produced by Ad Vitam	[24][25]
10 January 2024	Making Of	Cédric Kahn		[26]
24 January 2024	A Good Jewish Boy	Noé Debré
7 February 2024	The Beast	Bertrand Bonello
28 February 2024	Madame de Sévigné	Isabelle Brocard	Also produced by Ad Vitam
13 March 2024	Maria Montessori	Léa Todorov
27 March 2024	The Good Teacher	Teddy Lussi-Modeste		[27]
10 April 2024	Madame Hofmann	Sébastien Lifshitz
1 May 2024	The Buriti Flower	João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora
21 May 2024	Marcello Mio	Christophe Honoré
29 May 2024	Salem	Jean-Bernard Marlin
19 June 2024	Suspended Time	Olivier Assayas
3 July 2024	Pourquoi tu souris ?	Christine Paillard and Chad Chenouga
10 July 2024	Le Médium	Emmanuel Laskar
10 July 2024	Only the River Flows	Wei Shujun
11 September 2024	Langue étrangère	Claire Burger
13 November 2024	The Kingdom	Julien Colonna
18 December 2024	Everybody Loves Touda	Nabil Ayouch
1 January 2025	Bird	Andrea Arnold	Also produced by Ad Vitam
8 January 2025	Caught by the Tides	Jia Zhangke
22 January 2025	The Quiet Son	Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin
12 February 2025	The Mohican	Frédéric Farrucci
26 February 2025	À bicyclette	Mathias Mlekuz
19 March 2025	Lumière, l'aventure continue	Thierry Frémaux
26 March 2025	Je le jure	Samuel Theis
23 April 2025	Mariana's Room	Emmanuel Finkiel
7 May 2025	L'Effacement	Karim Moussaoui
18 June 2025	Enzo	Robin Campillo
3 September 2025	Fils de	Carlos Abascal Peiró
22 October 2025	The Little Sister	Hafsia Herzi
26 November 2025	A Private Life	Rebecca Zlotowski
10 December 2025	Animal Totem	Benoît Delépine
24 December 2025	Duse	Pietro Marcello	Also produced by Ad Vitam
14 January 2026	The Secret Agent	Kleber Mendonça Filho
28 January 2026	Homebound	Neeraj Ghaywan
11 February 2026	Urchin	Harris Dickinson
25 February 2026	Yakushima's Illusion	Naomi Kawase
18 March 2026	Calle Málaga	Maryam Touzani
8 April 2026	Romería	Carla Simón
22 April 2026	La Poupée	Sophie Beaulieu

Notes

1. The listed date refers to the film's limited or wide theatrical release in France by Ad Vitam, not necessarily its first screening or when it premiered.