The Light festival is a global event dedicated to “classic” cinema. Every October, it is in Lyon, birthplace of Cinematograph Lightthat the world of cinema celebrates its vitality and its memory, through a contemporary visit to the works of the past (restored films, retrospectives, guests, tributes, film concerts, etc.).
Every year, France Inter supports the festival and invites you to attend its cinema program.
► Saturday October 19 at 10 a.m.: We will have seen everything par Christine Masson et Laurent Delmas live from the Hangar du Premier-Film in Lyon
The Lumière festival offers you a rich and diverse program to discover or rediscover cinema.
This year, during the opening nightit’s the filmmaker Costa-Gavras who will be the subject of a tribute to celebrate his exceptional career in committed, strong, essential cinema.
As for the film projected, it will be A ghost of Christian-Jaque (1946), filmed in Lyon and which reveals formidable shots of the slopes of the Croix-Rousse, the Célestins theater, the city center, carried by the incomparable Louis Jouvet.
► The Light Prizeawarded each year to a cinema personality for their entire body of work.
For editing 2024the Light festival puts in the spotlight Isabelle Huppertwho will receive this year the Light Prize.
In 2023, Wim Wenders received the Lumière Prize and succeeded Tim Burton, Jane Campion, Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne, Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Fonda, Wong Kar-wai, Catherine Deneuve, Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodóvar, Quentin Tarantino, Gérard Depardieu, Ken Loach, Milos Forman et Clint Eastwood.
► Retrospectives dedicated to the great filmmakers who have made or are still making the history of cinema, of all genres, from all eras, with:
- Fred Zinnemann : winner of 6 Oscars, he offered their first role on screen à Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando or even Meryl Streep…
- Toshiro Mifune : a great figure of Japanese cinema who became a world star in the 1950s, from Akira Kurosawa has John Booman…
- Permanent history of women filmmakers: Mathilda Landeta is one of the first Mexican filmmakers…
- Light Classics to promote the year’s most beautiful restorations of 20th century films and support their (re)discovery.
- Treasures and curiosities
- The great classics of black and white
- Cults !
► From big sessions :
- A terrifying movie night hosted by Alexandre Aja with Heredity d’Arl Aster, The hill has eyes d’Alexandre Aja, The claws of the night of Wes Craven, The exorcist of William Friedkin
- Cinema-concert films with Vampire of Carl T. Dreyer (1932) et Icelandic fisherman of Jacques de Baroncelli (1924)…
► previews :
- Norah of Tawfik Alzaidi
- A fanfare d’Emmanuel Courcol
- The most valuable commodity of Michel Hazanavicius – a France Inter partnership
- Spectators! d’Arnaud Desplechin
- The substance of Coralie Fargeat – a France Inter partnership
- Three friends d’Emmanuel Mouret
- Three kilometers to the end of the world d’Emanuel Parvu
► guestsactresses and actors, filmmakers, film music composers:
- Costa-Gavra
- Xavier Dolan
- Vanessa Paradis
- Iciar Bollaine
- Giuseppe Tornatore
- Benicio Del Toro
- Justine Triet
- Marin Karmitz
- Vincent Lindon
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Claude Lelouch
- And many more…
Tributes in their presence, presentations of their films, meetings with the public, previews…
► There will also be:
- 30 years of Queen Margot : An entire generation was branded by the terrible representation of the Saint-Barthélemy’s Day massacre in Queen Margot whose screenplay is signed Daniele Thompson. The opportunity to see again in the theater, 30 years later, one of the most famous performances ofIsabelle Adjanisurrounded by Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade et Vincent Perez.
- Memories ofAlain Delon : He embodied French cinema; Alain Delon played legendary roles and his filmography includes nearly 80 films. He is showing in two films scheduled at the festival. The opportunity to remember the actor who passed away this year…
- And so many other events…
► expositions :
- America, America takes a unique look at American photography of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is designed from a selection of around forty works preserved in the collection of the filmmaker, producer and distributor, Marin Karmitz
- A ” carte blanche » brings together, for the first time in the same space, SMITH (Paris, 1985) and Luke Hoffmann (Zug, 1981). If their respective works belong a priori to two different worlds, these two artists share a remarkable sensitivity for the human figure, in its most evanescent forms…
A festival for everyone, to meet all audiences!
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