[*trad*] Office du Tourisme et des Congrès du Grand Lyon

Cinema

Lyon is the birth town where the Lumière brothers grew up, studied and eventually went on to invent cinema and film .

For several years, spurred on by Bertrand Tavernier and the Institut Lumière, the city has been cultivating the cinematography industry with great care, by adding more cinematic events and film festivals.

The Lumière Family : being the eldest sons of a renowned 19th century Lyon photographer, Antoine Lumière, brothers August and Louis grew up in an atmosphere of creativity and research.

Although initially focusing on the work of their father, it was only natural for them to proceed with their own experimentation, which led them to developing photographic procedures of their own.

Their research led them to work in very varied fields, such as medicine, physics and acoustics and in 1894, Antoine asked his sons to take an interest in animated images in which foreign researchers, such as Thomas Edison, were already developing.

By 1895, the Lumière Brothers filed a patent for the “cinematographe” and with the first movie camera they created the film entitled “la sortie de l’usine Lumière” (workers leaving the Lumière factory).

The film was shown in Paris the same year and the brothers were quickly recognised as the inventors of cinema.

Discover the history of cinema and the Lumière brothers at the Institut Lumière.

Rhone-Alpes Cinema

The Rhône-Alpes region ranks as France’s 2nd most popular location for film shooting.

With its 50 000 km² of natural landscapes, the region regularly appears in films by some of the greatest directors such as Claude Berri, Jean Becker and Bertrand Tavernier among others.

www.rhone-alpes-cinema.fr

Institut Lumière, Rhone-Alpes Cinema and Compagnie Lyonnaise de Cinéma have established the reputation of the city and the region in terms of the film industry.

Film Festivals

Film festivals, short films, scientific films, animated films, African films, and so forth - every type of film has its place in Lyon.

• 
  Lumière, The Grand Lyon Film Festival, (the 1^rst  edition has been from 13th to 18th October 2009  (Lyon and Greater Lyon)
  This festival takes place in more than 30 places of the Greater Lyon area : in movie theatres, of course, but in some other venues as well.
  Films, concerts, exhibitions, conferences... with artists, and cinema pros. Everything for cinema lovers!
  More information : www.grandlyonfilmfestival.org 
• New Generation Film Festival (Lyon)
• Scientific Film Festival (Oullins)
• African Film Festival – African Cinema Caravan (Ste-Foy-les-Lyon)
• Short Film Festival (Villeurbanne)
• Short Documentary Film Festival (Lyon)
• Latin American and Spanish Film Festival (Villeurbanne)
• Short French language films festival (Vaulx-en-Velin)
• Festival Ciné o’clock, the week of British and Irish cinema (Villeurbanne, Décines)
• Festival Hors-écran (Lyon and Greater Lyon)

Not to mention the multiple out-door film screenings during the summer, notably during the Nuits de Fourvière.