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On 30 November 1998, Jeremy Thomas founded production and foreign sales company HanWay Films with his colleagues Peter Watson (deputy chairman) and Stephan Mallmann, and continues to chair the board. Two new members joined the board in 2011, Thorsten Schumacher, previously head of sales, was appointed managing director, and former head of business affairs Jan Spielhoff took up the reins as chief operating officer.
HanWay also represents an extensive film catalogue of over 500 features including films from Thomas's Recorded Picture Company, and the British Film Institute. These include productions by Woody Allen, Takeshi Kitano, Bernardo Bertolucci, Wim Wenders, Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, David Mamet, Miloš Forman, Stephen Frears, Phillip Noyce and Nagisa Ōshima.
In August 2022, it was announced that American film production company Cohen Media Group had acquired HanWay Films from its founder Jeremy Thomas with HanWay Films continued to be branded as an independent label within Cohen Media Group. In January 2025, HanWay became the main representative of the Cohen Film Collection.
1999
Just Looking
Story of a Bad Boy
Women Talking Dirty
Sunburn
The Cup
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Buena Vista Social Club
2000
Help! I'm a Fish
Brother
Innocence
2001
Lotte Reiniger
The Mystic Masseur
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
Triumph of Love
Love the Hard Way
The Last Minute
2002
Junimond
Half the Rent
Serving Sara
Revengers Tragedy
Lost in La Mancha
Rabbit-Proof Fence
2003
House of Sand and Fog
The Boys from County Clare
Festival Express
Travellers and Magicians
The Dreamers
Danny Deckchair
The Soul of a Man
Young Adam
To Kill a King
Fools
All the Real Girls
2004
Night of Truth
It's All Gone Pete Tong
Human Touch
Land of Plenty
Promised Land
Egoshooter
Creep
The Football Factory
Derek Jarman: Life as Art
Boo, Zino & the Snurks
2005
Dreaming Lhasa
Brothers of the Head
Tideland
Magic Mirror
Don't Come Knocking
Match Point
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
2006
Goya's Ghosts
Anger Me
Away from Her
Belle Toujours
Impy's Island
Scoop
Severance
Fast Food Nation
Samoan Wedding
A Woman in Winter
Kidulthood
Glastonbury
2007
Battle for Haditha
Never Apologize
Mister Lonely
Control
Moving Midway
Becoming Jane
Kaluapapa Heavan
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
2008
A Bunch of Amateurs
Franklyn
Salvation
Genova
Is Anybody There?
Brideshead Revisited
Palermo Shooting
Of Time and the City
Impy's Island
Sunshine Cleaning
Two Fists, One Heart
2009
Nowhere Boy
Oil City Confidential
Beyond the Pole
The Boys Are Back
Harry Brown
Triage
Perrier's Bounty
Creation
Mugabe and the White African
Empire of Silver
An Education
2010
Robinson in Ruins
Made in Dagenham
Super
13 Assassins
Essential Killing
Chico and Rita
Black Death
Thunder Soul
It's a Wonderful Afterlife
2011
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
You're Next
Wuthering Heights
Shame
A Dangerous Method
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
The Decoy Bride
TT3D: Closer to the Edge
Pina
Life in a Day
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
2012
Great Expectations
Quartet
Seven Psychopaths
Kon-Tiki
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Me and You
Anton Corbijn
2013
Vara: A Blessing
Finding Vivian Maier
Dom Hemingway
The Unknown Known
Tracks
Only Lovers Left Alive
Seduced and Abandoned
All Is Bright
Houston
Dirty Wars
2014
20,000 Days on Earth
God Help the Girl
The Guest
The Riot Club
2015
Anomalisa
Brooklyn
Carol
Every Thing Will Be Fine
High-Rise
Tale of Tales
2016
The Limehouse Golem
Their Finest
2017
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Mary Shelley
A Prayer Before Dawn
2018
Colette
The Hummingbird Project
Monsters and Men
2019
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Impy's Island
The Kindness of Strangers
Pavarotti
Roads
The Song of Names
The Wolf Hour
2020
Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowen
The Dissident
Laila in Haifa
Made in Italy
Wild Mountain Thyme
The Roads Not Taken
2021
The Card Counter
Falling
Land
Minamata
Music
Seance
Ted K
2022
Blueback
EO
Master Gardener
2023
Anselm
The Royal Hotel
Shayda
Sweet Sue
What Happens Later
2024
La cocina
The Dead Don't Hurt
Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia
The Return
Timestalker
2025
Tornado
Hot Milk
2026
DreamQuil
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