Welcome to the Lumière festival!

Since 2009, the Lumière festival has been a great celebration of cinema history, a passionate journey through the films of the past. This year, we've added two extra days!

390 screenings, 180 films, in 24 municipalities of the metropolis of Lyon.

Screenings introduced by actors, filmmakers, historians, film critics, and by our "Lumière Ambassadors."

The Lumière Award, presented to Catherine Deneuve, after Clint Eastwood, Milos Forman, Gérard Depardieu, Ken Loach, Quentin Tarantino, Pedro Almodóvar and Martin Scorsese.

Retrospectives dedicated to great filmmakers who have made or are still making cinema history, of all genres and all eras.

Invitations to actresses and actors, filmmakers, film music composers.

Restored prints on the big screen in the theater:  See films in the best conditions.

Huge film screenings at the Halle Tony Garnier, the Auditorium of Lyon and the Conference Center.

A discovery of silent cinema with cinema concerts.

Master classes and the opportunity of special encounters thanks to the festival guests. 

Exhibitions and the cinema and photography fair.

Places to get together: the Village festival in the Institut Lumière Park, the barge La Plateforme at night... and a mâchon at a restaurant in Lyon! 

A rendezvous for professionals: the Classical Film Market.

A festival for all, inclusive of everyone: hospitalized children, inmates, those in reintegration programs, schoolchildren...