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.
Cinemini: Kind van de Gruffalo
Wonderful short animation film for the very youngest Lumière visitors. The Gruffalo’s daughter goes into the forest in search of the Big Dangerous Mouse. Based on the children’s book of the same name.
Binnenstebuiten 2 (Inside Out 2) (DV)
In the new Pixar animation film Inside Out 2, we return to the brain of Riley, who has now become an adolescent. The control room in her head is scrapped to make room for something completely unexpected: new emotions!
De Wilde Noordzee
Eye-catching nature documentary by Mark Verkerk (De Nieuwe Wildernis) in which experienced diver and cinematographer Peter van Rodijnen takes us to the underwater world of the North Sea. So close, but at the same time so unknown.
Un p'tit truc en plus
Touching French comedy in which a father and son who have robbed a jewellery shop end up in a holiday camp for young adults with intellectual disabilities. Was a huge hit in French cinemas.
Een Schitterend Gebrek (A Beautiful Imperfection)
Michiel van Erp tells the compelling story of Lucia, the first and greatest love of womaniser Giacomo Casanova. Based on Arthur Japin’s bestseller.
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.
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.
Filmkrant Day - two exclusive previews in collaboration with the Filmkrant
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.
Birthday Girl
In this thrilling Danish mother-daughter drama starring Trine Dyrholm, a dream cruise to the Caribbean islands turns into a nightmare.
Inside Out 2
In the new Pixar animation film Inside Out 2, we return to the brain of Riley, who has now become an adolescent. The control room in her head is scrapped to make room for something completely unexpected: new emotions!
Een Schitterend Gebrek (A Beautiful Imperfection)
Michiel van Erp tells the compelling story of Lucia, the first and greatest love of womaniser Giacomo Casanova. Based on Arthur Japin’s bestseller.
Un p'tit truc en plus
Touching French comedy in which a father and son who have robbed a jewellery shop end up in a holiday camp for young adults with intellectual disabilities. Was a huge hit in French cinemas.
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.
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.
Santosh
Clever debut about an Indian woman who inherits her husband’s job as a police officer after his death. Through a murder case, she stumbles upon the unshakable hierarchy of modern India.
Een Schitterend Gebrek (A Beautiful Imperfection)
Michiel van Erp tells the compelling story of Lucia, the first and greatest love of womaniser Giacomo Casanova. Based on Arthur Japin’s bestseller.
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.
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.
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).
Een Schitterend Gebrek (A Beautiful Imperfection)
Michiel van Erp tells the compelling story of Lucia, the first and greatest love of womaniser Giacomo Casanova. Based on Arthur Japin’s bestseller.
Kinds of Kindness
Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things) treats us to three macabre stories about all the things people will do to secure love and attention. Starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Jesse Plemons, winner of the Best Actor prize in Cannes.
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.
Blur: To The End
Disarming, intimate documentary following Britpop band Blur during the period when the band made a surprising and emotional comeback with the album The Ballad Of Darren (2023), their first album in eight years.
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.
Revenge
In the buildup to the premiere of The Substance (19 Sep), Lumière is screening Coralie Fargeat’s debut feature, a rape-revenge film told from a distinctly female perspective. Blood, sex, spectacle and feminism.
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.