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Lumière, Le Cinema!

(Thierry Frémaux, 2025)

New Restoration

Black-and-white still of people on a busy street. There are children in the forefront looking at the camera.
Mar 01, 2026 11:30 AM
Film/Video Theater

$8 members
$12 general public
$9 adults 55 and over
$6 students

Prices include all fees; fees waived for members and in-person purchases.

For ticketing questions please call the Visitor Desk at (614) 292-3535.

A limited number of listening devices are available upon request. 

If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Visit our Accessibility page to learn more.

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This collection of works by the Lumière brothers will take you back to the earliest days of the cinema in the late nineteenth century.

Directed by Thierry Frémaux, artistic director of the Cannes Film Festival, Lumière, Le Cinema! features more than 100 restored short films made by August and Louis Lumière. The brothers and their team of cameramen traveled the world and documented what they saw more than 120 years ago. Many who have taken a film class have seen Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) or The Arrival of a Train (1896), but this new collection captures the breadth and diversity of the subject matter recorded by the Lumières. The images are nothing short of breathtaking on the big screen and illustrate the early days of the art form. In French with English subtitles. (106 mins., 4K DCP)

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Lumière, Le Cinema!, courtesy of Institut Lumière.

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SUPPORT FOR FILM PROGRAMS PROVIDED BY

Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY

Greater Columbus Arts Council

The Wexner Family

Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts

CampusParc

The Columbus Foundation

Every Page Foundation

Mellon Foundation

Axium Packaging

Nationwide Foundation

Michael and Anita Goldberg

Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease, LLP

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY

Joyce Shenk

Rebecca Perry and Ben Towle

Lachelle Thigpen

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Lumière, Le Cinema!

Mar 01, 2026 11:30 AM EST
Film/Video Theater

$8 members
$12 general public
$9 adults 55 and over
$6 students

Prices include all fees; fees waived for members and in-person purchases.

For ticketing questions please call the Visitor Desk at (614) 292-3535.

A limited number of listening devices are available upon request. 

If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Visit our Accessibility page to learn more.

Become a Member