LUMIÈRE, LE CINÉMA

Director – Thierry Frémaux

130 years ago, the Lumière brothers invented cinema. But they did more than create a new technology—they laid the foundations of the cinematic language itself. Composition, camera movement, drama, humor, and an attention to everyday life are already present in their earliest films.

In his new film, Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate of the Cannes Film Festival and Director of the Institut Lumière, brings together more than 120 Lumière films, recently restored using modern technology, into a single cinematic journey to the origins of cinema. Following his ambition to “make one Lumière film out of Lumière films,” Frémaux does more than present a remarkable collection of historical footage: he invites us to see Louis Lumière not only as the inventor of cinema, but also as its first great filmmaker, whose artistic innovations continue to influence cinema today.