Record year for Lumière Maastricht
More and more people are finding their way to Lumière Maastricht. The arthouse cinema, located in the Sphinx Quarter since 2016, welcomed no fewer than 176,000 visitors in 2025 – the highest number ever. This means that the previous record from 2024, when 173,000 visits were recorded, has been broken once again.
Broad and diverse audience
Since its move from Bogaardenstraat to the Sphinx Kwartier, visitor numbers have continued to grow steadily each year, with Lumière reaching an ever larger and more diverse audience.
The record total consists of 140,300 regular cinema-goers, 18,400 visitors attending special events, 9,500 children and school pupils through Lumière LAB’s educational activities, and 7,800 (corporate) visitors for private events and screenings.
Highlights in 2025
In terms of content, 2025 was also a strong year. Nearly 7,000 filmgoers attended The Salt Path, the successful screen adaptation of Raynor Winn’s novel of the same name. En Fanfare, a film about two musically gifted brothers unaware of each other’s existence, proved to be a box-office success not only in France – around 5,400 visitors saw the film at Lumière. Finally, Babygirl, Halina Reijn’s erotic thriller, also attracted more than 5,000 visitors. Attendance for the now already iconic One Battle After Another is approaching 4,000.
In addition, the by-now hugely popular Lumière Open Air Film Festival once again proved to be a major success, with a record turnout of over 5,100 visitors enjoying a unique open-air cinema experience. The success of the Cinemini programme, launched in 2024 for children aged 2 to 6, continued with more than 600 young visitors.
Jubilee year in 2026
This upward trend fits perfectly with the run-up to a special jubilee year. In 2026, Lumière will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, as well as ten years at its current location by the Bassin. The jubilee year will focus on fifty years of arthouse cinema in Maastricht and will include, among other things, a special celebratory week in October, featuring distinctive programming and activities designed to appeal to both loyal visitors and new generations of film lovers.
Alongside these jubilee activities, Lumière will continue to focus on a strong, topical film programme in 2026. In January, Lumière opens the year with Hamnet, a sparkling love drama by Chloé Zhao (Nomadland), about the personal tragedy in Shakespeare’s life that lay at the heart of his timeless masterpiece Hamlet. Paolo Sorrentino (La Grande Bellezza) also returns with a new, powerful film, once again starring Toni Servillo, this time as the fictional President of Italy. In the summer, the long-awaited The Odyssey follows – Christopher Nolan’s (Oppenheimer) spectacular interpretation of Homer’s classic.
In short: a year to look forward to.