Régis Wargnier, Pernilla August, Lasse Hallström, Patrice Leconte, David Lynch, James Ivory, Yimou Zhang, Claude Lelouch, Claude Miller, Jacques Rivette, Max von Sydow, Hugh Hudson, Michael Haneke, Arthur Penn, Peter Greenaway, Spike Lee, Abbas Kiarostami, Andrey Konchalovskiy, John Boorman, Vicente Aranda, Wim Wenders, Cédric Klapisch, Alain Corneau, Fernando Trueba, Jaco Van Dormael, Liv Ullmann, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Youssef Chahine, Costa-Gavras, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Merzak Allouache, Jeffe Alperi, Raymond Depardon, Francis Girod, Gaston Kaboré, Bigas Luna, Sarah Moon, Lucian Pintilie, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Jerry Schatzberg, Nadine Trintignant, Yoshishige Yoshida, Gabriel Axel, Ismail Merchant, Philippe Poulet

Lumière et compagnie is a movie starring Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, and Merzak Allouache. 40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers.