Previous editions of Lumière

Lumière 2025

Lumière Award: Michael Mann

Program

Permanent History of Women Filmmakers: Anja Breien
The art of Louis Jouvet
Martin Ritt, a committed filmmaker in Hollywood
Konrad Wolf, Splendours of East German Cinema
Seijun Suzuki, the wildcard of Nikkatsu
Festival guests: Sean Penn, Natalie Portman, John Woo,Dominique Blanc, Shu Qi, István Szabó, Isabelle Huppert, Alain Chabat, Juliette Binoche, Tarik Saleh, Rebecca Zlotowski, Scott Cooper, Manu Payet
New restorations in the presence of filmmakers
20 years of the LAIKA studio with Travis Knight and Sam Fell
All the premieres, with cast and crews!
Moments in cinema history: The cinema was born 130 years ago!, Memories of David Lynch, At the Heart of Apocalypse Now, Swedish Cinema: the incomparable Victor Sjöström, Cartoon story
Lumière Classics - New restorations / Treasures & Curiosities
Sublime moments of silent film
Eternal projections on the big screen
Japanime: A Japanese Animation All-nighter at the Halle Tony Garnier
The Lumière film festival for kids : Kung Fu Panda
Documentaries on the cinema

Lumière 2024

Lumière Award: Isabelle Huppert

Program

A permanent history of women filmmakers: Matilde Landeta
Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity
Toshiro Mifune : From Akira Kurosawa to John Boorman
Costa-Gavras: Celebration
Festival guests: Xavier Dolan, Vanessa Paradis, Benicio Del Toro, Giuseppe Tornatore, Icíar Bollaín, Justine Triet,
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Marin Karmitz, Alfonso Cuarón, Claude Lelouch
New restorations in the presence of filmmakers
Premieres in the presence of cast and crew
Events and celebrations: Chaplin the Eternal, 30 years! Queen Margot, Alejandro Jodorowsky All-Nighter, Yannick Bellon centenary, Yasuzo Masumura, ecstasy and agony
Lumière Classics - New restorations: Classics & Treasures & Curiosities
Sublime moments of silent film
Big classics in black and white
Cult classics!
All-Nighter at the Halle Tony Garnier: "A trip to the ends of horror" hosted by Alexandre Aja
The Lumière Film Festival for kids: Animated Asterix!
Documentaries on the cinema

Lumière 2023

Lumière Award: Wim Wenders

Program

Permanent History of Women Filmmakers: Ana Mariscal
Denys de La Patellière
Robert Altman – The Wild West Show
Ozu rarities & first screenings
Festival guests: Wes Anderson, Marisa Paredes, Alexander Payne, Karin Viard, Taylor Hackford, Jonathan Glazer, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Terry Gilliam, Rintaro, Alfonso Cuarón pays homage to Alain Tanner, Michel Hazanavicius, Patrick Bouchitey
Premieres in the presence of cast and crew
Events and celebrations: Remembering Bertrand Tavernier: a symphonic concert, Miyazaki Premierei, Homage to Jane Birkin, The new film by Martin Scorsese, Variations on Wanda by Jeanne Cherhal, Disney Centenary, Michel Ciment by Thierry Frémaux, Earth!,The Apu Trilogy, Tribute to Jacques Rozier, Kenji Misumi All-Nighter – La lame à l’œil.
Lumière Classics - New restorations: Classics & Treasures & Curiosities
Sublime Moments of Silent Film
Big classics in black and white
Cult Flicks!
Our 15th anniversary
The Lumière film festival for kids
Documentaries on the cinema

Lumière 2022

Lumière Award: Tim Burton

Program

Permanent History of Women Filmmakers: Mai Zetterling
Louis Malle, the solitary figure of French cinema
Sidney Lumet, the prince of New York
André De Toth’s Hungarian films
Festival guests: James Gray, Marlène Jobert, Lee Chang-dong, Nicole Garcia, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jerzy Skolimowski, Guillermo del Toro, Monica Bellucci, Nicolas Winding Refn, Claude Lelouch: 60 years of cinema,
Others Premieres in the presence of cast and crew
Sublimes Moments of Silent Film
Cult!
Events and Celebrations: Eastwood Symphonic at the Auditorium of Lyon, 40 years of Reds!, Memories of Bertrand Tavernier, Earth !, Gérard Philipe Centenary, Dalida and the Cinema
Two icons: Jeanne Moreau, director and Meiko Kaji, Lady Scorpion
Big classics in black and white
Lumière Classics, Treasures and curiosities
Tim Burton All-nighter
The Lumière festival for children,
Documentaries on the cinema

Lumière 2021

Lumière Award: Jane Campion

Program

Permanent History of Women Filmmakers: Kinuyo Tanaka
Sydney Pollack’s America
Big classics in black and white
The Popular cinema of Gilles Grangier
Festival guests: Bulle Ogier, Paolo Sorrentino, Philippe Sarde, Édouard Baer, Juan Antonio Bayona, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Nan Goldin and Bette Gordon, Marco Bellocchio, Edgar Morin, Rebecca Hall, Premières
Music: “Cinema” by Jeanne Cherhal
Sublime moments of silent cinema
A tribute to Bertrand Tavernier
Celebrations: 1971: The Birth of Blaxploitation, Clint Eastwood: 50 years of a filmmaking career, Pialat's Van Gogh: 30th anniversary, Tribute to Fernando Solanas
Re-release events: Infernal Affairs Trilogy, J-Horror, the 3 Faces of Fear, The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
Lumière Classics, Treasures & curiosities, Epic screenings, Nuit Jurassic
The Lumière festival for children: Shrek
Documentaries on the cinema

Lumière 2020

Lumière Award: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Program

Michel Audiard Centenary
Permanent History of Women Filmmakers: Joan Micklin Silver
Homage to Melina Mercouri
Invitation to Viggo Mortensen, Thomas Vinterberg, Alice Rohrwacher, Albert Dupontel and Gabriel Yared
Events: Sabine Azéma, Invitation to Oliver Stone, Remembering Tonie Marshall, In the Mood for Love: 20th anniversary, Musique ! Concert by Jeanne Cherhal, Tribute to Michel Piccoli, Tribute to Max von Sydow
The Lumière Classics label: Lumière Classics, Treasures & curiosities and other designated films
Cannes Official Selection 2020: Premieres
Cannes Classics
Big classics in black & white
Epic screenings
Documentaries on the cinema
A film-concert event : Flesh and the Devil
The Lumière festival for kids
Family screening at the Halle Tony Garnier: Way out West by James W. Horne

Lumière 2019

Lumière Award: Francis Ford Coppola

Program

Cinema all-nighter : The Godfather All-nighter
A Chaplin film-concert!
A film-concert event : The Wheel by Abel Gance
Alain Chabat presents his Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
The Irishman Premiere in the presence of Martin Scorsese
André Cayatte, a filmmaker with “social courage”
Forbidden Hollywood: Warner Treasures
Permanent History of Women Filmmakers: Lina Wertmüller
Big classics in black & white
Invitation to Frances McDormand, Daniel Auteuil, Bong Joon-ho, Donald Sutherland, Marco Bellocchio, Marina Vlady and Gael García Bernal
Sublime moments of silent cinema
The Lumière festival for kids
DVD Publishers' Fair, 1st edition

Lumière 2018

Lumière Award: Jane Fonda

Program

Henry by Jane (Fonda)
The Godard Project
The truth of Henri Decoin
Hollywood Moments: Richard Thorpe
Permanent history of women filmmakers: Muriel Box
King Hu, saber and beauty
Sublime moments of silent cinema
Invitation to Liv Ullmann, Claude Lelouch, Peter Bogdanovich, Javier Bardem, Biyouna, Alfonso Cuarón, Claire Denis, Cheng Pei-Pei, Françoise Arnoul, Hugh Hudson et Christophe Lambert, Jerzy Skolimowski, Stephen Frears, Jean-Pierre Jeunet et Marc Caro, Jerry Schatzberg, Margarethe von Trotta, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Grover Crisp
Events: Orson Welles, Documentary, 70mm, Anniversaries
Epic screenings
New restorations
Re-releases
Archival treasures and curiosities
The Lord of the Rings All-nighter
My very own festival – Movies for kids
Documentaries on the cinema

Lumière 2017

Lumière Award: Wong Kar-wai

Program

Carte blanche to Wong Kar-wai
Le mystère Clouzot
Classic Westerns
A Permanent History of Women Filmmakers
Sublime Moments of Silent Cinema
Invitation to Tilda Swinton, Michael Mann, Diane Kurys, Anna Karina, William Friedkin, Jean-François Stévenin, Guillermo del Toro, Eddy Mitchell, Charles Aznavour
French cinema by Bertrand Tavernier
Alfonso Cuaron presents
Jean-Pierre Melville Centenary
Nicolas Winding Refn presents
Special features: The CNC turns 70, Short films, King Kong by Michel Le Bris, Animated film
Film music: Giorgio Moroder
Epic Screenings
New Restorations
Re-releases
Archival treasures and curiosities
The All-Nighter “Outer Space”
My very own festival – Lumière for Kids
Documentaries on the cinema

Lumière 2016

Lumière Award: Catherine Deneuve

Program

Marcel Carné
Hollywood, la cité des femmes
Buster Keaton, Part 1
Quentin Tarantino : 1970
Universal Monsters
L'inconnu italien: Antonio Pietrangeli
A permanent history of women filmmakers: Dorothy Arzner
Bertrand Tavernier presents
Invitation to Gong Li, Walter Hill, Park Chan-wook, Jean-Loup Dabadie, Gaspar Noé, Back at Lumière…: Jerry Schatzberg, Nicolas Winding Refn
Sublime moment of silent film
Epic screenings
Archival treasures
New restorations
Celebrations: Hommage to Jim Harrison, Hommage to Michael Cimino, Hommage to Abbas Kiarostami, Hommage to Chantal Akerman, Discover Ralph Thomas, 30 ans !, Invitation to the Lodz Film School
Special screenings
The all-Nighter Band of buddies
Lumière for kids
Documentaries on the cinema

Lumière 2015

Lumière Award: Martin Scorsese

Program

Carte blanche to Martin Scorsese
The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project
Akira Kurosawa: The Toho Years
8 films by Julien Duvivier in restored prints
A permanent history of women filmmakers: Larisa Shepitko
Pixar
Invitation to Nicolas Winding Refn, Sophia Loren, John Lasseter, Geraldine Chaplin, Mads Mikkelsen
Music and Cinema: invitation to Alexandre Desplat
Gaumont, since the start of the cinema
Remembering Jean Yanne
A voyage through French Cinema by Bertrand Tavernier
Viva Mexico !
New restorations, Archival Treasures, Re-releases
Curious films of the 1980s
The All-Nighter at the Halle Tony Garnier - Fright Night
Epic Screenings
Documentaries on the cinema