Star Without Light / 1946

An aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the singing and speaking voice of a silent-movie favorite. Sworn to secrecy, the fill-in must stand by in silence as the star receives all the praises and plaudits.

Le Messager de la lumière / 1938

Lauren Bacall, ombre et lumière / 2017

The Lumière Brothers' First Films / 19968.01 voti

A collection of short films made by the Lumiere brothers, a team of pioneering filmmakers in turn-of-the-century France, narrated by Bertrand Tavernier.

Joachim Gatti, variation de lumière / 20096.01 voti

Joachim Gatti, is the grand-son of the director and filmmaker Armand Gatti. During a demonstration in Montreuil, he lost an eye, hit by a “flashball” fired from a policegun.

Lumière, la naissance du cinéma / 1953

Nougaro Hombre et Lumière / 2004

La Lumière du Rocher / 1986

La lumière du lac / 1988

An urban gigolo on the run from a mobster hides out at the remote cabin of a female novelist in this plodding romantic drama. Her neighbors include an elderly man with a penchant for growing sunflowers and an unhappy neighbor girl with emotional problems. Love blossoms for the unlikely couple who somehow realize their liaison is doomed to failure.

40 Years Lumière Cinema / 2016

Lumière Cinema Maastricht celebrates its 40th birthday and moves to a brand new and beautiful theatre.

Le Chemin de lumière / 1937

Les Enfants de Lumière / 1995

This French documentary is comprised of almost 300 clips from the past 100 years of cinema Francaise. The images within the documentary are free flowing and not in chronological order; they are also not hindered with unnecessary narration or lengthy introductions. The film represents the collaborative efforts of a collective of the country's finest filmmakers.

La Lumière du phare / 2013

From Shade to Light / 2022

French alpinist Charles Dubouloz’s attempt at a rarely repeated route on the fabled north face of the Grandes Jorasses, spending five frigid nights alone above the lights of Chamonix in the dead of winter.

Let There Be Light! / 1998

God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

Light Shaft / 1975

"Light Shaft" diagonally crosses the screen with a wedged light formation, usually on the diagonal. Its variations are rendered through arrangements of the tripod while panning the camera. Limiting the viewer's attention to a smaller screen, a point in space, allows for a certain confusion as to whether the rest of the (dark) screen blends itself into the surrounding blackness or is just a window into it.

Light Study / 1923

Montage of different sequences reconstructing the three-color additive synthesis process patented by Audibert, French inventor who began researching natural colors in cinema from 1909. The process used in this film dates from 1923 and consists of capturing three photograms at the same time, through three lenses containing color filters.

Le carré de lumière / 1991

Omaggio al film Toro Scatenato di Scorsese

The Light of the Dreams / 2022

Michel Jouvet, known worldwide since 1959 for his discovery of paradoxical sleep, dives in the twilight of his life in his notebooks of dreams, drawings and research. An abundant material which gradually animates an intimate portrait of this neurobiologist, oneirologist convinced that the dreams are the guardians of the singularity of our identity.

The Light of the Heart / 1916