Liberation Entertainment has acquired North American rights to triptych Tokyo! in which Michel Gondry, Bong Joon-ho and Leos Carax direct three short films about the Japanese capital. The film played in Un Certain Regard here.

The deal was negotiated by Rob Williams for Liberation and Laurent Baudens for sales agent Wild Bunch, and Liberation is planning a theatrical release in 2008.

Liberation was launched in 2006 by entrepreneur Jay Boberg with the backing of private equity firm Clarity Partners; it specializes in the production and worldwide sales of films and TV programming and has recently stepped up its theatrical releasing activities in North America with titles such as Take and Shotgun Stories.

'This is exactly the sort of film that we are looking for as a company, and we look forward to bringing it to its largest possible audience,' said Rob Williams, who recently joined the company as vice president of acquisitions for Liberation from Netflix's Red Envelope Entertainment.