Neon Tongues · 2025
Premiere
Competition
Retro · 1974
10th Edition · 14—23 March 2025 · Lisbon

LUMIÈRE
in revolt

142 Films · 38 Countries · 6 Venues
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Opening Night: "The Salt Garden" by Mira Okafor
EST. 2016 / №10
§ 02
Program

Ten days. Six venues.
One hundred forty‑two films.

Select day
Day 0114.03
Day 0215.03
Day 0316.03
Day 0417.03
Day 0518.03
Day 0619.03
Day 0720.03
Day 0821.03
Day 0922.03
Day 1023.03
Docs
Shorts
Features
Competition
Retro
10:00
11:30
13:00
14:30
16:00
17:30
19:00
20:30
22:00
23:30
Cinema Ideal · Hall A
The Salt Garden · 102'
Shorts: Hands
Cinema São Jorge
DOC: Concrete Lullabies · 88'
★ COMP: Vapor
Late: Moonweave
Nimas · Black Box
Shorts: Border
RETRO: Wim Wenders · 35mm
Trindade Open Air
★ COMP: After the Frost · 116'
Galeria Zé dos Bois
DOC: Iron Hour
Intl: Black Sun, White Dog
Q&A
§ 03 · Passes

Tear here.

Single tickets, day passes, and the full all-access — all printed on real card.

All-Access · No 0001

Festival
Pass

Entry
All 142 films
Venues
6 cinemas
Includes
Q&A · Parties · Press kit
From
€180
Day Pass · No 0024

Single Day

Unlimited screenings, one venue, 24h

€32
Section · No 0142

Docs Strand

22 documentaries · all 10 days

€68
Single Screening

One Film

€9
§ 04 · In Focus

Filmmakers visiting Lisbon.

Director · Nigeria / UK

Mira Okafor

Mira Okafor returns to Lumière with "The Salt Garden", a hypnotic feature on grief, salt mines and inherited language. Winner of Cannes Critics' Week, 2023.

Films
3
Talks
Day 02 · 04
Lang.
EN · IG
Director · Lebanon

Karim Haddad

A patient observer of borders and waiting rooms. "Concrete Lullabies" is his first feature documentary after a decade of acclaimed shorts.

Films
1
Talks
Day 05
Lang.
AR · FR
Director · Argentina

Sol Beltrán

Beltrán's wildly anarchic "Vapor" smashed Locarno wide open. Expect feverish color, no narrative seatbelt, and a Q&A she swears will run long.

Films
2
Talks
Day 07 · 09
Lang.
ES · EN
§ 05 · Press

What they're saying.

"The most fearless ten days of cinema in Europe." ★★★★★ — Sight & Sound "Programming as provocation." — Cahiers du Cinéma "The most fearless ten days of cinema in Europe." ★★★★★ — Sight & Sound "Programming as provocation." — Cahiers du Cinéma
Eyebrow · Editorial
“Lumière is no longer the future of indie cinema — it is the present, loudly, defiantly, on every screen.”
— Indiewire·03 / 04
"A festival that refuses to be polite." — Film Comment "Ten days. Zero compromises." — The Guardian "A festival that refuses to be polite." — Film Comment "Ten days. Zero compromises." — The Guardian