# 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. Since its founding in 1998, Ad Vitam has become one of France's leading independent distribution companies.

## History

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

## Filmography

The films distributed by Ad Vitam are:

### 1990s

Ad Vitam films released in the 1990s :
| Release date | 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 | Title | Director(s) | Notes |
| 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 | Title | Director(s) | Notes |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 18 December 2019 | Notre dame | Valérie Donzelli | |

### 2020s

Ad Vitam films released in the 2020s :
| Release date | Title | Director(s) | Notes |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 10 January 2024 | Making Of | Cédric Kahn | |
| 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 | |
| 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 ! Le cinéma | Thierry Frémaux | |
| 26 March 2025 | Je le jure | Emmanuel Finkiel | |
| 23 April 2025 | Mariana's Room | Emmanuel Finkiel | |
| 7 May 2025 | L'Effacement | Karim Moussaoui | |