Long live Lumière 2025!

The chilling urban crime thriller, now considered a classic of the genre, brings together two giants of cinema: Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. 

The 79-year-old Chinese director, screenwriter and producer is one of the guests of honour at the Lumière film festival.

As tradition dictates, the first film in cinema history gets a remake, directed by Michael Mann, honouree of the 2025 Lumière Award...

Since his debut in 1974, the Hong Kong filmmaker has distinguished himself through his ability to elevate a gunfight into a poetic experience. 

Raphaël Quenard, in writer mode, had just finished filming Michael Mann's remake of Leaving the Lumière Factories and sat down to talk about his book Clamser à Tataouine.

I think I’m attracted to characters who have complex, violent contradictions.

Posters, film set photographs, press kits, and many other rare items are waiting to be discovered at the exhibition on late filmmaker David Lynch.

Actress, expert in tap dancing, hip-hop and modern jazz. Zoé Alliaume has more than one talent in her bag of tricks. 

Journalist, writer and leading expert on French cinema, Olivier Barrot, the iconic host of the show Un livre, un jour on France 3, received the 2025 Raymond Chirat Prize during the Lumière film festival.

Michael Mann receives the Lumière Award

Michael Mann gives his vision of cinema during his masterclass.

Isabelle Huppert, 2024 Lumière Award honouree, returns to Lyon with a pair of films that both reveal and revel in the full extent of her extravagance — somewhere between tragic burlesque and bona-fide burlesque

When I decided to make Collateral, I had just finished directing The Last of the Mohicans, Heat and Ali. For me, they were very large-scale films

Alexandre Mérieux, a true cinephile from Lyon and President of bioMérieux, a partner of the festival, talks to us about Lumière!

All I Had Was Nothingness, the documentary that recreates Claude Lanzmann's experience while shooting his epic œuvre, Shoah. 

Co-founder of Carlotta Films, Vincent Paul-Boncour presents two books: ‘An American Experience of Chaos: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ and ‘The Golden Age of Japanese Cinema 1935–1975’). 

Japanese anime is utterly captivating. Four films: Princess Mononoke, Your Name., Belladonna of Sadness and Paprika, screened back-to-back, offer insight into the psyche of the land of manga, and much more...

It's brutal. If you wanted to count the number of gunshots fired in this film, you'd give up in defeat after just four minutes.

Organist Grégoire Rolland accompanies Victor Sjöström's silent film The Phantom Carriage.

« My father was the one who introduced me to science fiction. He took me to see all the Star Wars movies at the Palais des Congrès in Lyon  »

In 2004, Michael Mann elevated the chase film to new heights with the thriller Collateral, featuring Jamie Foxx and a grey-haired Tom Cruise.

Juliette Binoche, director, introduced her first film, In-I In Motion at the Pathé Bellecour.

Comfy armchairs, some refreshments and a giant screen. The front row is already full at the OVE Foundation respite home in Tassin-la-Demi-Lune.

The Lumière Award presents a tribute to Mann’s singular gaze and uncanny ability to capture reality. A close-up portrait of the filmmaker, currently  preparing the sequel to Heat.

Rarely has a director devoted his œuvre so entirely to the masculine psyche of solitary heroes—even when they're lost in a crowd—as Michael Mann. !

István Szabó, the 87-year-old Hungarian filmmaker, considered one of the greatest in Eastern Europe, came to share stories of his youth, his early days in cinema, and the history of his films, which are closely tied to that of his country.

This is the territory Jérémie Renier chose to make a necessary and very, very surprising road movie-documentary.

When you love cinema, it’s impossible to be satisfied with just Wednesday releases. 

Directed in 1975,  the historical œuvre  Barry Lyndon  by Stanley  Kubrick  is an epic masterpiece!  How well do you actually know it ?

At the MIFC, Taiwan is one of the greatest ambassadors of Asian cinema. We spoke with Wayne Chen-Wei Hong, international cooperation coordinator at the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TFAI). 

Guillermo del Toro introduces his film Frankenstein at the Hangar du Premier Film!

When cinema and life are intrinsically intertwined, the result is a political, poetic, poignant and funny documentary with an eloquent and counterintuitive title: Dis pas de bêtise (‘Don't Talk Nonsense’).

Wearing red and black, the volunteers were well represented on Thursday morning at a gathering dedicated to a programme supported by the regional prefecture aimed at facilitating the social integration of refugees newly-arrived in France.

M.A.R.T.I.N. R.I.T.T., what does it stand for? Here are a few clues to help you understand the director to whom Lumière is paying tribute.

Tarik Saleh explains both his vision of cinema, and his own cinema.

A figure of the Hungarian New Wave of the 1960s, István Szabó creates historical and oneiric cinema, inspired by a combination of imagination and effervescence.

Justine Ryst, !General Director of YouTube France and Southern Europe, guest of honour at the MIFC !

The 1995 recounting of the final years of the life of the filmmaker, actor, illusionist and mystic who had passed away ten years beforehand.

LaCinetek, a video-on-demand platform dedicated to heritage films, is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Pascal Fèvre, Regional Director of BNP Paribas Commercial Bank in France's Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region, shares his commitment to cinema, a field he is well-versed in.

A classic of French cinema directed in 1969, The Sicilian Clan is legendary. Do you know it in detail?

He is as skilled at first aid as he is at salsa dancing and knows the criminal procedural code by heart.

The art of acting in everything with unforgettable style characterises Louis Jouvet. 

According to Saleh, cinema is first and foremost a moral art. ‘Every image must ask a question.’ He films the way one interrogates — with the sharpness of the graffiti artist he once was, aware that the surface is likely a façade. 

Before a crowd of fans who had arrived at dawn to hear her speak, Natalie Portman elaborated on her early days as an actress, her influences, and her work as a producer.

I feel the same joy as when I started, but at the time I couldn’t have imagined that it would last thirty years. 

Meet György Ràduly, director of Film Archives at the Hungarian National Film Institute (NFI). 

We thought we knew everything about the filming of Apocalypse Now, but Delphine Valloire offers a new, magical, mystical and hallucinatory interpretation. 

Catherine Mallet, Director and Programmer of the arthouse cinema La Cascade, and a member of the Agency for the Regional Development of Cinema, is in Lyon to highlight the importance of appreciating heritage cinema.

Béatrice de Pastre, Director of Collections at the National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC), has been awarded the 2025 Fabienne Vonier Prize.

Jeanne Moreau inspired the filmmaker and the woman I am.

In conjunction with the presentation of his Frankenstein, this documentary takes viewers on a journey of discovery into the fascinating inner world of Guillermo del Toro. 

In 2005, Merry Christmas by Christian Carion was released, an exceptional story about the folly of war. Test your knowledge on the film!

Ever since I was a child, I've believed that it's important to be committed to causes that reflect our values

Norwegian cinema did not begin to flourish only since the time of Joachim Trier. Before him, director Anja Breien had already laid the foundations for an engaging and singular style of filmmaking.

The actress and director never fails to surprise us with her ability to navigate between auteur cinema, blockbusters and a growing involvement in production.

Freedom, feminism, love: this trio of words sums up Rebecca Zlotowski's universe.

Headlining the film One Battle After Another by Paul Thomas Anderson, Sean Penn discusses his work as an actor and director.

Arnaud Brun, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Groupe Adéquat, explains how a festival is essentially about human values.

American Andrea Kalas, Vice President of the  Media and Archival departments of Iron Mountain Media and Archival Services is honoured at the MIFC...

Filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius left for Ukraine in November 2023. He returned with six notebooks, the Carnets d'Ukraine, a series of portraits of remarkable women and men. 

In the Chinese province of Yunnan, the beautiful Ashima loves Ahei, a young and handsome shepherd.

Joël Chapron, specialist in Eastern European cinema, discusses the book Le cinéma d'Andreï Zviaguintsev (Mimesis Editions).

An expert in setting up festival gazebos and tents’ is how 19-year-old Léopold Cesbron humorously describes himself.

In 1989, the world discovered When Harry Met Sally... by Rob Reiner, and it became an instant classic. Test your knowledge of this charming rom-com.

An international investigation. The story of the restoration of Abel Gance’s Napoleon — an adventure as wild as the film itself.

Sean Penn receives a big surprise: an Honorary Lumière Award!

We celebrate cinema, on its 130th anniversary — and along with it, a treasure from its origins: the films of the Lumière brothers, its inventors.

Taiwanese actress-turned-director Shu Qi, who resides in Hong Kong, shares insight into her inspiration behind Girl, her first foray into filmmaking.

Lyon-born actress Dominique Blanc opened up to the audience at the Pathé Bellecour during a moving masterclass.

‘What's the point of coming back from the dead if it's just to keep repeating the same old stories?’ laments Simon, the protagonist of Love upon Death/Love unto Death.

Ugo Bienvenue, the director of Arco, discusses the adventure of his film [...]. The aim of this initiative, supported by CHANEL, is to encourage students to plan for a sustainable and inclusive future.

In Estonia of the 1950s, then under the control of the USSR, a member of the Communist Party is sent to an agricultural farm...

Directed in 1947 by Henri-Georges Clouzot, Quai des Orfèvres/Jenny Lamour is one of the finest crime films in French cinema! How much do you know about it?

At the age of six, Mame leaves his mother to attend a Koranic school to receive an education.  

‘I love Lyon. I love the people who invented the foundations of my profession,’ declares Youssef Chahine.

It opens with Francis Ford Coppola in a white T-shirt answering the question of how it feels to self-finance a film with a budget of $120 million...

Actor-director Sean Penn has taken a lap around the Halle Tony Garnier to salute the audience to the music of Bruce Springsteen. 

It is rare for a filmmaker's life to be as astonishing as his films, but such is the case with Konrad Wolf, whose destiny encompassed a whole expanse of the 20th century. 

In 2007, screenwriter and director Sean Penn released his most emblematic film.

Japanese filmmaker Seijun Suzuki exists as a mere footnote in the history of cinema.

For his first step into the team of volunteers, 21-year-old Quentin Terisse has put together a choice film program for himself.

Jérôme Wibon, film historian, explains why DVDs are alive and well, and indeed, even necessary! 

Today, the Bernard Chardère Prize is awarded to him in recognition of his love of cinema, which he knows how to share with others.

Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned) holds a place in history as one of the cornerstones of cinema. This documentary retraces its creation.

A ‘kitchen conversation’ with Bertrand Bonello about his book Bertrand Bonello, Des stratégies obliques, created with Pascale Cassagnau, published by Éditions De l’Incidence. 

Havana Lan, Country Manager of BYD France, discusses the Lumière film festival.

In 2008, the lovable figure of Kung Fu Panda took the world by storm!

Sean Penn makes films the way one debates, the way one fights. Portrait of an idealist.

Stunning actress of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s œuvre, Shu Qi, presents her intense directorial debut Girl, premiering in Lyon!

Theatre or cinema? Cinema or theatre? With her, the question doesn't arise. It never has.

2010 Lumière Award recipient Miloš Forman is honoured once again with the screening of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, his five-time Oscar-winning masterpiece.

Director, screenwriter and actor Scott Cooper explores the American soul as a worthy heir to John Ford.

How does an independent stop-motion animation studio based in Oregon, often nominated for Academy Awards, compete with major studios in LA?

The Lumière film festival is often about encounters, where filmmakers, actors, journalists, audiences and writers come together by virtue of their shared love of cinema and make meaningful connections. 

‘It's incredible, it looks like a joke,’ remarks a policeman standing in front of the corpse of a man named Vidauban

Winner of the Palme d’or at Cannes in 1990, Wild at Heart by David Lynch reinvents the road movie for two! Do you know its secrets ?

In a small town in the American south, a trade unionist arrives with the clear intention of persuading workers at a cotton mill to fight for their rights.

I've been into cinema since I was a kid!’ she exclaims. A true Lyonnaise, Tayana Touam Arnaud took her first steps as a film lover at the Pathé Bellecour theatre.