Wim Wenders will present Perfect Days at the Lumière Festival in Lyon

The Lumière de Lyon festival will honor the German Wim Wenders, director of Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire, for its 15th edition from October 14 to 22. “Celebrating in Lyon, in the birthplace of the Cinématographe Lumière, this traveling filmmaker, polymorphous and visionary virtuoso, accomplished photographer, who never stopped reinventing himself and had a thousand lives, was obvious for a long time,” explains in a communicated the festival management.

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“His films affirm his style and his key themes: wandering, travel, solitude, but also a certain mythology of the American road trip,” adds the festival management, evoking the work of Wim Wenders, who will hold a master class shortly before the award ceremony. A retrospective of his films, including the famous documentary Buena Vista Social Club (1999), will take place among the 180 films and 448 screenings scheduled in Lyon and its metropolis during the festival.

Wim Wenders, 78, will present a preview of his latest film Perfect Days, which is scheduled to be released in theaters on November 29, but also his documentary Anselm, the sound of time, which is released on October 18. The filmmaker, whose three photographic exhibitions are on offer at the Institut Lumière, will be surrounded by prestigious guests: American directors Wes Anderson, Alexander Payne and Taylor Hackford, Spanish and French actresses Marisa Paredes and Karin Viard and French directors and American-British Jean-Jacques Annaud and Terry Gilliam. They will also take part in a master class.

The festival public will also have the premiere of the latest feature film by Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, The Boy and the Heron, a few days before its French release. But also those of “Circle of Snows” by the Spaniard Juan Antonio Bayona, La Passion de Dodin Bouffant by Tran Anh Hùng or Second Tour by Albert Dupontel.