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In celebration of the 130th anniversary of the Lumière Cinematograph, join us for the premiere of “Lumière ! The Adventure Continues” in the UAE.

One hundred and thirty years ago, the Lumière brothers invented cinema. Everything was already there: the composition, the tracking shots, the dramatic scenes, the comedy sketches, and the actors. Thanks to the restoration of over 100 previously unseen Lumière films, the feature film offers us an intact spectacle of the world at the turn of the century, and a captivating journey to the origins of a cinema that knows no end.

Lumière, The Adventure Continues features:
– The Lumière films: 120 works of total discovery, 120 films that have not been shown on the big screen in 130 years.
– Thierry Frémaux’s erudite, didactic commentary and his historical, philosophical and aesthetic perspectives, full of unexpected insights that lead us up to the cinema of today.
– Music by composer Gabriel Fauré is an essential element in the staging and enhancement of the film.
Gabriel Fauré was chosen (as was Camille Saint-Saëns previously for Lumière, The Adventure Begins) because he was a contemporary of Louis and Auguste Lumière.

The film is divided into eleven chapters, with a prologue and an epilogue – plus a surprise from Francis Ford Coppola, sneaked into the credits (so watch until the very end!). Each section tells the story of the Lumière adventure and, more broadly, the adventure of cinema.

Sorties d’usine Productions, the commercial subsidiary of the Institut Lumière (Lyon’s film library, located on Rue du Premier-Film, where the Lumières filmed Leaving the Factory in 1895), produced the film. And Thierry Frémaux was able to choose from among the 300 Lumière films newly restored by the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, thanks to the CNC, allowing us to discover more than 120 of these completely unknown, yet splendid films.

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Meet the Park Family, the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Masterminded by Ki-Woo, the Kim children scam their way as tutors into the wealthy household—and it’s not long before the Parks are obliviously bankrolling the whole Kim clan.

Film Clinic, and The Last Resort

Beshay - a man cured of leprosy - has never left the leper colony in the Egyptian desert where he has lived since childhood. Following the death of his wife, he finally decides to go in search of his roots. With his meager possessions strapped to a donkey cart, he sets out. Quick-ly joined by Obama, the Nubian orphan he has taken under his wing, Beshay will cross Egypt and confront the world with all its sorrows, its hardships and moments of grace, in his quest for a family, a place to belong, and a little humanity…

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Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life cleaning toilets in Tokyo. Outside his structured daily routine, he enjoys music, books, and photographing trees. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveals more about his past. A deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday.

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Antoine Doinel is a 13-year-old boy living near Place de Clichy in a small, uncomfortable apartment, between his mother, Gilberte, a sullen woman who doesn’t love him, and the man who gave him his name but isn’t his father, a weak individual who could love him if he weren’t so inconsistent. As he grows older, Antoine becomes increasingly unable to tolerate his situation and dreams of a better future. He soon discovers the joys of skipping school with his friend René, comes home late, silently endures his parents’ reprimands, and one day, finally, to explain an absence from class, he announces that his mother has died...

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L'Histoire de Souleymane won the Jury Prize, and Abou Sangaré received the Best Actor Award in the Un Certain Regard section
As he pedals through the streets of Paris delivering meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he must attend his asylum interview, the key to obtaining official papers. But Souleymane is not ready.