Lumière Film Festival
October 10 · Level 5 · #1328 of 2238
Held in Lyon, the Lumière Film Festival celebrates cinema's history by bringing classic and rediscovered films back to the big screen. It gives audiences the pleasure of encountering older films as a shared experience in a cinema.
How it is celebrated: audiences attend restored-film screenings, retrospectives and conversations with filmmakers and actors. The Lumière Award, recognising a major contribution to cinema, is a central event.
Lyon's connection to the Lumière brothers is literal: they filmed workers leaving their factory there. That brief scene became one of the most recognisable images of early cinema.
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