Als eerbetoon aan de gebroeders Lumière, filmpioniers bij uitstek, werd aan 40 internationale regisseurs gevraagd een korte film te maken. Zij moesten daarbij gebruik maken van de originele, door de broers Lumière ontwikkelde 'Cinematographe'. Bovendien mochten de filmpjes niet langer zijn dan 52 seconden, er mocht geen gesynchroniseerd geluid in voorkomen en niet meer dan 3 takes.
Nee, helaas is Lumière et Compagnie nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Directing | John Boorman | Director |
| Directing | Michael Haneke | Director |
| Directing | Costa-Gavras | Director |
| Directing | Wim Wenders | Director |
| Directing | Raymond Depardon | Director |
| Directing | David Lynch | Director |
| Directing | Lasse Hallström | Director |
| Directing | Cédric Klapisch | Director |
| Directing | Claude Lelouch | Director |
| Directing | Alain Corneau | Director |
| Directing | Francis Girod | Director |
| Directing | Spike Lee | Director |
| Directing | Vicente Aranda | Director |
| Directing | عباس کیارستمی | Director |
| Directing | Θόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος | Director |
| Directing | 吉田喜重 | Director |
| Directing | Fernando Trueba | Director |
| Directing | Hugh Hudson | Director |
| Directing | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Director |
| Directing | 张艺谋 | Director |
| Directing | Ismail Merchant | Director |
| Directing | Sarah Moon | Director |
| Directing | Arthur Penn | Director |
| Directing | Bigas Luna | Director |
| Directing | Nadine Trintignant | Director |
| Directing | Jerry Schatzberg | Director |
| Directing | Merzak Allouache | Director |
| Directing | Andrej Kontsjalovski | Director |
| Directing | Claude Miller | Director |
| Directing | Gaston Kaboré | Director |
| Directing | Jaco Van Dormael | Director |
| Directing | Gabriel Axel | Director |
| Directing | Jacques Rivette | Director |
| Directing | Idrissa Ouedraogo | Director |
| Directing | James Ivory | Director |
| Directing | Patrice Leconte | Director |
| Directing | Peter Greenaway | Director |
| Directing | Liv Ullmann | Director |
| Directing | Régis Wargnier | Director |
| Directing | Youssef Chahine | Director |
| Directing | Lucian Pintilie | Director |
| Art | Anne Andreu | Art Direction |
| Editing | Roger Ikhlef | Editor |
| Editing | Timothy Miller | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Françoise Nicolet | Costume Design |
| Production | Neal Edelstein | Producer |
| Writing | Philippe Poulet | Idea |
| Sound | Jean-Jacques Lemêtre | Music |
| Production | Anne Andreu | Executive Producer |
| Production | Fabienne Servan Schreiber | Producer |
| Production | Humbert Balsan | Associate Producer |
| Production | Søren Stærmose | Co-Producer |
| Camera | Sven Nykvist | Director of Photography |
| Production | Ángel Amigo | Co-Producer |
| Camera | Didier Ferry | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Jean-Yves Le Mener | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Sarah Moon | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Frédéric LeClair | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Philippe Poulet | Director of Photography |