World sales company The Match Factory is dedicated to bringing the finest in arthouse cinema to the international market. Since our founding in 2006, our passion has been to work with films of signature and vision from around the globe. The Match Factory has built strong relationships with acclaimed directors and producers, while working simultaneously to discover promising new filmmakers with a powerful original style.

Founded by Michael Weber, Pandora Film's Reinhard Brundig and Karl Baumgartner The Match Factory's films have received numerous awards from the most prestigious film festivals: Jasmila Zbanic's GRBAVICA (Golden Bear, Berlinale 2006); Bahman Ghobadi (San Sebastian 2006) received his second Golden Shell Award; Fatih Akin's THE EDGE OF HEAVEN (Prix Du Scenario, Cannes 2007); and Ari Folman's WALTZ WITH BASHIR won the Golden Globe® for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated fort he Academy Award® Best Foreign Language Film in 2009.

Besides our slate of current films, we are proud to represent classics of the X-Filme library, the entire library of Aki Kaurismäki, as well as selected titles of Jim Jarmusch (NIGHT ON EARTH, PERMANENT VACATION, DEAD MAN, DOWN BY LAW, STRANGER THAN PARADISE, COFFEE AND CIGARETTES and MYSTERY TRAIN).