Lumière!

Lumière! (original title Lumière! L'aventure commence), directed by Thierry Frémaux, who serves as both the general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival and director of the Institut Lumière in Lyon, is a documentary compiling 108 short films by Auguste and Louis Lumière, each under 50 seconds long. The film was made on a very low budget of 15,000 euros; it drew 125,000 viewers in France, a very high return relative to its budget. The film had its preview screening at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2015, narrated live by Frémaux himself; its closing scene features a cameo from Martin Scorsese in a reenactment of the brothers' first film. Who it's for: anyone curious about a documentary tracing the birth of cinema through 108 Lumière brothers films, including the one considered the world's first film, directed by the Cannes Film Festival's own director. Who it's not for: viewers expecting a modern, colorful visual experience, since the film consists entirely of black and white shorts from the 1890s, each under a minute long.