Peak Season
Romantic drama, reminiscent of Before Sunrise, in which wealthy New York yuppie Amy meets a local nature guide during a holiday in Wyoming who is the antithesis of her successful fiancé in everything.
Un Silence
Intense psychological family drama by Joachim Lafosse (Les Intranquilles, À Perdre La Raison) about a lawyer with a disturbing secret. Based on the high-profile Belgian trial of lawyer Victor Hissel.
Lumière Open Air Film Festival
Watching movies under the starry sky is an experience you don't want to miss! From Friday 9 August to Tuesday 20 August, the fifth edition of the Lumière Open Air Film Festival will take place. Choose from a dazzling mix of recent releases ...
Open Air | Emilia Pérez
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.
Krekel & Mierabella
Animation film with a new take on Jean de la Fontaine’s famous fable The Cricket And The Ant, about a creative and musical cricket, and a disciplined, hard-working ant.
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell - English subtitled
Haunting Thai drama in which director Thien An Pham takes viewers on a sensory, meditative trip to the Vietnamese countryside. Winner of the Caméra d'Or (prize for best debut film) at Cannes.
Coraline (15th Anniversary)
Award-winning stop-motion animation classic about a girl who finds a secret door in her new home and walks into a dangerous alternative version of her life. With a bonus behind-the-scenes look at LAIKA Studios.
Los Reyes Del Mundo
Colombian drama full of dreamy and surreal images about five teenagers who want to escape the violence and poverty they grew up in. Winner of the Golden Shell, the top prize of the San Sebastian film festival.
Un Amor
Spanish drama by Isabel Coixet (My Life Without Me, Elegy) about the fortunes of a young woman seeking refuge in a tiny Catalan village community with strict social norms. Based on the bestseller by Sara Mesa.
Isaac Julien In Context
On the occasion of Isaac Julien's exhibition What Freedom Is To Me at Bonnefanten, Lumière is screening five films and documentaries that provide context to the work of the globally celebrated British artist.
Open Air | Paris Is Burning
Ground-breaking documentary about the New York drag ball subculture. African American and Latino homosexuals and transgenders united in ‘houses’ in the 1980s and challenged each other on the catwalk and the dance floor.
Open Air | The Substance
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.
Open Air | Before Sunrise
American aspiring writer Jesse and French student Celine meet on a European train and decide to spend a night together in Vienna. First part of the classic Before film series.
Open Air | Singin' In The Rain
The quintessential Hollywood musical classic. Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O'Connor dazzle in this captivating tale about the transition from silent films to talkies.
Mal Viver (Bad Living) - English subtitled
First part of a haunting diptych set in a hotel near Oporto, Portugal, where five women who jointly run the hotel suffocate each other in intergenerational trauma.
Tatami
Political thriller about a judoka who is pressurised into losing on purpose during the world championships. A blood-curdling battle ensues, fought both on and off the mat (tatami).
Widow Clicquot
Sparkling costume drama about the life of the ‘Grande Dame of Champagne’, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin (1777-1866) who had to pull out all stops to protect the Clicquot heritage after her husband’s death.
Daaaaaalí!
Prolific filmmaker Quentin Dupieux (Deerskin) presents a playful, inventive and humorous ode to Salvador Dalí. The film follows a journalist who is eager to interview Dalí, but her attempts to do so are thwarted by the flamboyant artist.
Tatami - English subtitled
Political thriller about a judoka who is pressurised into losing on purpose during the world championships. A blood-curdling battle ensues, fought both on and off the mat (tatami).
Historians' Days 2024: Selling a Colonial War + Panel Discussion
In collaboration with Historians' Days 2024, which this year take place in Maastricht, Lumière is screening Selling a Colonial War, an extensive documentary on the power of representation in Dutch colonial history. In this case this is demo...
Schuld & Boete: In De Wurggreep Van De Schuldenindustrie
Documentary in which aid applicants and aid workers paint a staggering picture of how the debt industry works and show why people sometimes sink deeper and deeper into financial problems.
Sphinx Special: Schuld & Boete + Discussion
In cooperation with Debatcentrum Sphinx Maastricht Lumière shows the documentary Schuld & Boete: In de Wurggreep van de Schuldenindustrie, including a discussion. This screening is part of a series of debates about differences in welfar...
Viver Mal - English subtitled
In the finale of his diptych, João Canijo continues on the gloomy track he laid out in Mal Viver. This time, the director puts hotel guests under his filleting knife. Ingmar Bergman looks on approvingly from the afterlife.
A New Kind of Wilderness
Award-winning documentary about a family living a free and self-sufficient life in the idyllic forests of Norway. A tragic event forces them onto a new path towards modern society.
Filmconcert Kevin Toma: The Lodger – Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller about a serial killer who preys on beautiful young women with blonde curls. Film critic and composer Kevin Toma provides a live score for this classic.
Sterben
Wry-comic German family drama about a dysfunctional family starring Lars Eidinger as a conductor working on a piece of music about death. Awarded the Silver Bear for best screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival.
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Documentary on the brilliant oeuvre of the film duo Powell and Pressburger (The Red Shoes, A Matter Of Life And Death), with a wealth of clips and rare archive footage.
Peeping Tom
Peeping Tom was slammed by critics in 1960. The film marked the end of Michael Powell’s career, but is today seen as a classic film about cruelty and voyeurism in film.
De Wilde Noordzee
Inspired by the famous explorer Jacques Cousteau, this spectacular documentary explores the largest nature reserve in our country: the underwater world of the North Sea.
The Gullspång Miracle + short film Wander to Wonder
Coen Brothers meets Twin Peaks in this incredible documentary full of eccentric characters about two sisters who buy a flat in a Swedish hamlet. The saleswoman looks exactly like their sister, who committed suicide in 1988.
Cinemini
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...
The Substance
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.
Langue Etrangère
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.
The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova) - English subtitled
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.
Musica Sacra | Uit Vrije Wil
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 three films related to the festival theme: Uit Vrije Wil (Of Free Will).
La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc
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.
Ordet - English subtitled
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.