The twin triumphs of Jafar Panahi’s “ It Was Just an Accident ” at Cannes and Jim Jarmusch’s “ Father Mother Sister Brother ” at Venice made 2025 a banner year for international auteurs embracing the French film showbiz ecosystem — though that’s hardly surprising for a production partner fluent in every language of cinema.

“You make electric cars with China, and films with France,” quips producer Charles Gillibert . “We have always had a universalist framework that supports not just French artists, but filmmakers from around the world, all of them benefiting from a self-sustaining system that uses investment obligations and festivals to sustain creativity.”

As president of Les Films du Losange and a producer of recent titles like Bi Gan’s “Resurrection” and Kristen Stewart’s “The C

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