German director Wim Wenders will receive the 15th Lumière prize at the Lumière Festival in Lyon (October 14 to 22), the organizers announced on Monday June 12, hailing a "traveling filmmaker, polymorphic and visionary virtuoso, accomplished photographer, who has never stopped reinventing itself and had a thousand lives”. He who was "one of the first filmmakers invited by the Lumière Institute in 1991" - for a retrospective and a photo exhibition - had "never returned to rue du Premier-Film", they also indicated. He will receive his award on Friday, October 20.
The filmmaker made a "stunning double" this year with two films at the Cannes Film Festival : Perfect Days, selected in competition and prize for best actor for Kōji Yakusho, as well as the 3D documentary Anselm, on the painter Anselm Kiefer, presented in a special session. This last film will be released in theaters on October 18, during the Lumière Festival, said its distributor, Les Films du Losange.
Wim Wenders succeeds Tim Burton, Jane Campion, the Dardenne brothers, Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Fonda, Wong Kar-wai, Catherine Deneuve, Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodóvar, Quentin Tarantino, Ken Loach, Gérard Depardieu, Miloš Forman and Clint Eastwood.
The Lumière Award announcement video can be accessed here.