Francisco Villa-Lobos and Philippe Avril founded Les Films de l’Étranger in October 2003 for developing European and non-European co-productions of art-house films. After having followed all over the world Vimukthi Jayasundara, Pedro Costa, Wang Bing and many other filmmakers, this French independent production company is now since a couple of years :
–  opening ways for new future co-operations and projects,
– focusing mostly on European co-productions (feature films, TV-series).

LFE is a member of the :
–  Trade-Union of French Independent Producers (SPI)
– Association of the Audio-Visual Producers in Alsace (APAA)
–  Association of the Audio-Visual Producers in ‘Grand Est’ Region (APAGE)