25/02/2013 - The company directed by Margaret Ménégoz, delegate producer of Amour, finds the Holy Grail with an Oscar rewarding an editorial approach of very high quality

With the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, won last night by Amour [+see also:
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This raid on international awards signs a kind of apotheosis for an independent production, distribution and international sales company, which has always maintained its artistic requirements for an editorial approach very open to European cinema. Indeed, all it takes is a glance at the line-up of movies to be released in France soon by Les Films du Losange to be convinced: Nymphomaniac by Danish director Lars von Trier, 1001 Grams by Norwegian director Bent Hamer, Die andere Heimat by German director Edgar Reitz (a home coproduction), Blocher, une vie by Swiss director Jean-Stéphane Bron, Rocker by Romanian director Marian Crisan.

As for distribution and international sales, Les Films du Losange are also counting on Michael Kohlhaas by French director Arnaud des Pallières (article – with Danish star Mads Mikkelsen), Grisgris by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (article), L’inconnu du lac by Alain Guiraudie (article) and the documentary La maison de la Radio by Nicolas Philibert (to be released on April 3^rd). On screens since February 13^th, a mention for Goodbye Morocco [+see also:
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(Translated from French)