After winning the Palme d’Or with Titane (2021), Julia Ducournau returns with an emotional family drama centred on a thirteen-year-old girl who may have contracted a disease that slowly turns people into marble statues.

A moving and sensory drama in which we get to know Hector and Angela, a happy couple. Angela's deafness has never been an obstacle in their relationship, but suddenly becomes one after the birth of their daughter.

An intimate documentary in which the 90-year-old Dalai Lama shares his vision on the major challenges of the twenty-first century and how we can deal with them.

Prior to the screening of Caravaggio, a daring biopic about the life of the homosexual Renaissance artist Caravaggio, art historian Ko van Dun will give a lecture on the artist’s work.

A timeless, sugar-sweet classic starring Julie Andrews as a young woman who goes to work as a governess for the Austrian Von Trapp family. Winner of five Oscars in 1966, including Best Picture.

Documentary in which the award-winning Swedish journalist My Vingren infiltrates a far-right online community and reveals how major tech companies profit from hate mongers.

How does Big Tech profit from hate-mongers? In this documentary, award-winning Swedish journalist My Vingren infiltrates a far-right online community. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion.

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'.

Documentary about the 'essay industry' in Kenya. For a meagre fee, highly educated Kenyans write theses for North American and European students, who undeservedly earn a degree as a result.

A 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.

Satirical thriller by Ari Aster (Midsommar) about an explosive clash between a mayor (Pedro Pascal) and a sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) during the COVID pandemic. The conflict threatens to tear their community apart.

Psychological thriller about a woman who works for a sex line in Ankara. When Istanbul is hit by an earthquake, she receives a call from a young client who is trapped under the rubble and begs for her help.

A family film in which young Mina travels to Hollywood with her dance crew, only to discover that behind the glitter and glamour lie some tough choices.

During the Dutch Dance Days (Nederlandse Dansdagen) you can experience dance everywhere in Maastricht, including Lumière Maastricht. During the festival, we will be screening two spectacular recordings of dance performances and two compilat...

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 Palliative Care Network Maastricht-Heuvelland, in collaboration with Lumière Maastricht, regularly organises film evenings with the aim of raising awareness of palliative care among a wide audience.

Belgian animated film about Hopper and his friends who set out on a quest to find a legendary marmot that can help save Hopper’s fellow kind.

The little mouse Edda has a big dream: she wants to race in the Grand Prix. When her hero drops out of the race, Edda gets a chance she never expected. Can she make her dream come true?

Even the most dedicated Lennon/Ono fans will be surprised and delighted by this documentary exploring their musical, personal, artistic, and political world, including footage from John Lennon’s 1972 Madison Square Garden concerts.

Sven Bresser’s debut film, a murder mystery about a reed cutter who discovers the body of a girl, was selected for Critics’ Week in Cannes – the first Dutch film in the programme since 1998.

A heartwarming and moving road movie in which Agnès Varda and photographer JR, who is more than fifty years her junior, travel to small French villages in a van to photograph the local population.

A heartwarming and moving road movie in which Agnès Varda and photographer JR, who is more than fifty years her junior, travel to small French villages in a van to photograph the local population.

An intimate nouvelle vague classic by Agnès Varda (Visages Villages) in which we follow two hours in the life of a young singer who wanders around Paris while waiting for the results of a cancer test.

A particularly beautiful and playful documentary about French scavengers. Out of necessity or by conscious choice, they live off the leftovers of others.

Lyrical drama about a young vagrant who is found frozen to death by a Moroccan farm worker. Winner of the Golden Lion in Venice in 1985.

Lyrical drama about a young vagrant who is found frozen to death by a Moroccan farm worker. Winner of the Golden Lion in Venice in 1985.

A particularly beautiful and playful documentary about French scavengers. Out of necessity or by conscious choice, they live off the leftovers of others.

An intimate nouvelle vague classic by Agnès Varda (Visages Villages) in which we follow two hours in the life of a young singer who wanders around Paris while waiting for the results of a cancer test.

Family film about an eleven-year-old girl who thinks her wandering father has a vivid imagination, but discovers that he really does see strange things, and that they are not always pleasant.

Filmblik Festival returns to Lumière this autumn! Come and enjoy the best youth and family films, and take part in a range of exciting workshops.

In this workshop you’ll create moving images without a camera and design your own phenakistiscope: a magical spinning disc that brings your drawings to life.

Build your own film set and discover how colours can make a scene cheerful, exciting, or even a little tense.

Psychological drama by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Challengers) starring Julia Roberts as a professor who faces a difficult dilemma when a top student accuses a colleague of transgressive behaviour.

A sun-drenched tennis noir about a tennis coach at a mediocre resort whose superficial life of teaching, drinking and casual sex is turned upside down when he starts coaching the son of a privileged family.

A post-apocalyptic musical with Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon about an ultra-rich family who, after an environmental disaster, try to build as normal a life as possible in a luxurious bunker. The arrival of a stranger disrupts their rou...

Psychological drama by Kirill Serebrennikov (Leto) about German war criminal and camp doctor Josef Mengele. The film focuses on the period after the Second World War, when the “angel of death” fled to South America.

A heart-warming and funny documentary about the participants and organisers of the World Porridge Championships in a village in the Scottish Highlands. Making really good porridge turns out to be more difficult than you might think.

Have you ever wondered how the strange sounds in animated films are made? In this workshop you’ll discover the world of film sound and learn the tricks of a unique craft: foley.

In this workshop, hand-drawn illustrations come to life with 2D stop-motion, showing how individual images come together to form a film.

Documentary by grandmaster Patricio Guzmán about the massive protests in Santiago in 2019. One and a half million Chileans took to the streets for a fairer society.

How do you give meaning to images of protest – past, present, and future? This film series complements the exhibition PROTEST by Viewmaster Projects and provides tools to interpret them.

A comedy with a dark undertone, starring Steve Coogan as a disillusioned English teacher who takes care of a penguin that has washed ashore in Argentina in 1976.

A minimalist heist film by Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Certain Women) in which Mooney (Josh O’Connor) and two accomplices rob a museum in broad daylight during the 1970s.

A documentary about three passionate idealists who refuse to accept the status quo and each try to make a difference in their own way.

The Little Tramp joins thousands of others in search of gold in the Yukon Mountains. An immortal classic, including the famous dance of the rolls scene.

Heart-wrenching epic drama about the life of a Palestinian family through the generations. A film about displacement, intergenerational trauma and protest.

Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite) reunites with Emma Stone for this satire about two young men who, obsessed with conspiracy theories, kidnap the CEO of a large company because they believe she is an alien.

Film adaptation of Max Frisch’s classic novel about a man who is arrested in Switzerland in 1950 and suspected of not being who he claims to be. A thrilling and moving story about identity.

Splash, splash, splash! In this film programme, take a dive in four film adventures full of water and, dancing with the crabs, come back up on the beach!

A powerful documentary about the 1985 riots in Handsworth and London, and the complex story of Black communities in Britain.

Documentary by Elizabeth Sankey about the representation of witches in films. Witches shows that our characterization of witches says a lot about how we view women, motherhood and mental health.

Film classic by Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show) about three schoolgirls and a teacher who disappear without a trace during a mountain hike in the Australian countryside. classic, based on a play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.