Lumière and Company (original title: Lumière et compagnie) is a 1995 anthology film made in collaboration between forty-one international film directors. The project consists of short films made by each of the filmmakers using the original Cinématographe camera invented by the Lumière brothers. The shorts were edited in-camera and constrained by three rules:

Directors

• Merzak Allouache • Gabriel Axel • Vicente Aranda • Theo Angelopoulos • Bigas Luna • John Boorman • Youssef Chahine • Alain Corneau • Costa-Gavras • Raymond Depardon • Francis Girod • Peter Greenaway • Lasse Hallström (starring Lena Olin) • Michael Haneke • Hugh Hudson • Gaston Kaboré • Abbas Kiarostami • Cédric Klapisch • Andrei Konchalovsky • Patrice Leconte • Spike Lee • Claude Lelouch • David Lynch • Merchant & Ivory (music by Richard Robbins) • Claude Miller • Sarah Moon • Idrissa Ouedraogo • Arthur Penn • Lucian Pintilie • Jacques Rivette (starring Nathalie Richard) • Helma Sanders-Brahms • Jerry Schatzberg • Nadine Trintignant • Fernando Trueba • Liv Ullmann (starring Sven Nykvist) • Jaco Van Dormael (starring Pascal Duquenne) • Régis Wargnier • Wim Wenders • Yoshishige Yoshida • Zhang Yimou

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