LUMIERE! THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES
Lumière! L’aventure continue
France, 2025, 104 min.
Director: Thierry Frémaux
Cast: Thierry Frémaux (voice)
Original Language: French
Subtitles: English
A special festival event dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the invention of cinema!
The screening is introduced and accompanied by commentary from the film’s creator – Thierry Frémaux, Cannes Film Festival artistic director and Director of the Institut Lumière.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Cannes Film Festival artistic director Thierry Frémaux invites you on a breathtaking journey – an unforgettable adventure into the origins of the art we know and love as cinema.
We will witness the birth of a new miracle – on the white canvas of the screen, with the help of celluloid and light, emerges a magic that takes your breath away.
One hundred and thirty years ago, in 1895, the enterprising Lumière brothers created a world where reality became poetry.
This new feature-length film brings together celebrated masterpieces and rare short films: cinematic gems drawn from the archives, lovingly restored and brought back to life on the big screen.
Charming, touching, mysterious, and mesmerizing – they are presented here in a new context, delicately woven into the seamless narrative of a fledgling art form that would soon conquer the world.
130 years ago, the Lumière brothers invented cinema. Everything was already there: the composition, the tracking shots, the dramatic scenes, the comedy sketches, the actors... Thanks to the restoration of over 100 previously unseen Lumière 'views', the feature film offers us an intact spectacle of the world at the turn of the century and a stimulating journey to the origins of a cinema that knows no end.
The sequel to the hugely successful "Lumière! L'aventure commence" / "Lumière! The Adventure Begins" reveals another hundred Lumière films, all immaculately restored. This new feature-length film aims above all to explore more deeply the history of the invention of cinema in the world and to confirm that the roots of the greatest and most beautiful works in the history of cinema lie in its origins.
The adventure continues! This is a one-of-a-kind cinematic celebration not to be missed.
This film will have a single, exclusive screening at the festival