Children from 2 to 6 years experience their first cinema visit during Cinemini! On Sunday morning, toddlers and preschoolers will discover the magic of film in this special program in which they experience film and can play in a beautiful l...

Lumière and the Filmkrant join forces for an exclusive premiere day. The programme features two films that received high marks at international film festivals earlier this year. With introductions (in Dutch) by a Filmkrant editor and an int...

Dive into fascinating themes that connect to current films together with experts. Before and/or after the film screening, we will have a conversation with experts and the public during 'Film & Talk'.

Special screening of two episodes from the Belgian documentary series She They Us, portraying people who, inspired by intersectional feminism, are fighting for a future where everyone can be equal.

Prior to Een Goed Begin, an insightful documentary about the unique Dutch birthcare, there will be a lecture by Prof. dr. Marianne Nieuwenhuijze, professor in Midwifery (language: Dutch). After the documentary there will be an aftertalk.

The sensation of this year’s Cannes Film Festival was this hyper-stylised body horror film starring Demi Moore as a fitness instructor who goes to extremes in her pursuit of eternal youth, with grotesque consequences.

Tragicomic film about a shy French schoolgirl who goes on an exchange to Germany. To impress her German pen pal, she invents a different life for herself, but soon becomes entangled in a web of lies.

German drama about the work of Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. His incendiary propaganda machine played a crucial role in radicalising Hitler’s supporters and misleading the German people.

Classic film noir about an American writer who arrives in World War II-ravaged Vienna to visit his old friend Harry Lime, but the latter turns out to have died in a suspicious accident.

Absorbing, associative portrait of the eighteenth-century Armenian poet Sayat-Nova. Widely regarded as one of the most enigmatic cinematic meditations on art and beauty. Including introduction.

The third weekend of September in Maastricht revolves around Musica Sacra Maastricht. Lumière Cinema is one of the main venues of the arts festival and will screen four films related to the festival theme: Uit Vrije Wil (Of Free Will).

Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterpiece is an austere but extremely moving film based on the account of the trial of Joan of Arc in the fifteenth century.

Costume drama about palace intrigue in the Tudor era. When King Henry VIII returns ill and paranoid from a war, Katherine Parr, his sixth wife, must fight to survive. With Alicia Vikander and Jude Law.

Danish classic by Carl Theodor Dreyer – often referred to by Lars von Trier as his great example – about fanatical religious beliefs in Jutland. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Film is an art form that crosses borders, is (almost) universally accessible and grabs us in a unique way - visually, aurally, emotionally and intellectually. The Exploring Cinema series celebrates film as a medium.

Compilation of the best short films from the province of Limburg of the past year. After the screening, the audience will vote for the annual CineSud Audience Award for the best short film.

French filmmaker Audrey Diwan – winner of the Golden Lion with the abortion drama Happening – explores sexual pleasure in the post-Me Too era with this new adaptation of Emmanuelle Arsan’s erotic novel.

Dutch drama about a parent couple who have to witness their 42-year-old son enter a euthanasia process because of unbearable psychological suffering. Are they able to let him go? Opening film Dutch Film Festival.

Dance and sing in front of the big screen with the concert film blur: Live At Wembley Stadium. Including a beer tap close to the screening room!

A rarely screened rockumentary made by Paul McCartney and his then-band Wings at London’s Abbey Road studios in August 1974. We see the band live in the studio.

In this poetic-philosophical documentary, the invisible quantum world and tangible reality come together in encounters with colourful scientists and Japanese villagers.

An unlikely meeting between a legendary American forensic scientist and a group of Argentine students changes the course of forensic science and international human rights.

Romantic comedy starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles, based on Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew, but with a modern twist.

Creative documentary in which filmmaker Oliver S. Garcia confronts his father and half-brother with their family history and inner conflicts while trekking through the breathtaking mountainous landscape of California.

On Monday morning 7 October 2024, the MICHELIN Guide will present its new restaurant selection for the Netherlands at the MECC in Maastricht. In the light of this Michelin Guide Ceremony 2024 at MECC, Lumière is screening the unforgettable ...

After the screening of Oeconomia - a clearly narrated and precise documentary about the innermost workings of the capitalist system - there will be a panel discussion. This is a collaboration with Maastricht Young Academy.

Animation film about an intelligent robot that gets stranded on a desert island after a shipwreck. Slowly but surely, the robot builds a bond with the animals on the island.

Transitions is a 3-day gathering of filmmakers, artists and professionals passionate about independent, adventurous and non-commercial filmmaking and moving image. Through screenings, artist profiles, roundtables and behind-the-scenes insig...

The Netherlands’ most famous astronaut makes his directorial debut with this visual spectacle in which we see the beauty of Earth through the eyes of an astronaut. With music by Greek composer Vangelis.

This colourful animation family film follows the comical quest of mischievous Linda and her mother, who are desperately searching for chicken.

Moving animation film by Claude Barras (Ma Vie De Courgette) about a girl who teams up with an orang-utan to fight for conservation in Borneo.

Sparkling musical thriller by Jacques Audiard (Les Olympiades) about a Mexican drug boss who has one big wish: to transform into a woman. Winner of the Jury Prize and an ensemble award for the actresses at Cannes.

Humanist, loving drama from Levan Akin (And Then We Danced) about a retired teacher from Georgia who teams up with her young neighbourhood boy in Istanbul to search for her niece Tekla, who disappeared years ago.

Ambitious Dutch animation film about Victor, a bat struggling with a – especially for bats – big problem: he is afraid of the dark. Opening film Cinekid Festival.

Psychological drama about a long-distance swimmer who gets sucked into a passionate but also cruel affair with an underwater welder. Directed by Boudewijn Koole (Kauwboy), based on the book of the same name by Oek de Jong.

Dutch drama about a 16-year-old teenage father who suddenly finds himself alone with his baby; a child with a child. Closing film of the Dutch Film Festival.

The definitive documentary on Paul Simon, one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

Sensitive drama starring Saoirse Ronan as a young woman who, after a stay in rehab, loses herself in the pristine nature and solitude of Scotland’s Orkney Islands trying to find joy in life again.

This classic by Wim Wenders, with a beautiful score by Ry Cooder, tells the dramatic story of a man who lost everything and tries to repair the damage.

Classic neorealist Indian coming-of-age film about the life of Apu, a boy growing up in a poor rural Indian family. With his lyrical and humanistic style, Satyajit Ray offered an alternative to Bollywood.