40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
Unfortunately the movie Lumière & Company is not yet available on Disney Plus.
| Directing | Lasse Hallström | Director |
| Directing | Vicente Aranda | Director |
| Directing | John Boorman | Director |
| Directing | Alain Corneau | Director |
| Directing | Raymond Depardon | Director |
| Directing | Francis Girod | Director |
| Directing | Abbas Kiarostami | Director |
| Directing | Cédric Klapisch | Director |
| Directing | Spike Lee | Director |
| Directing | Claude Lelouch | Director |
| Directing | Michael Haneke | Director |
| Directing | David Lynch | Director |
| Directing | Wim Wenders | Director |
| Directing | Costa-Gavras | Director |
| Directing | Theo Angelopoulos | Director |
| Directing | Peter Greenaway | Director |
| Directing | Hugh Hudson | Director |
| Directing | Gaston Kaboré | Director |
| Directing | Andrei Konchalovsky | Director |
| Directing | Bigas Luna | Director |
| Directing | Sarah Moon | Director |
| Directing | Arthur Penn | Director |
| Directing | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Director |
| Directing | Jerry Schatzberg | Director |
| Directing | Nadine Trintignant | Director |
| Directing | Fernando Trueba | Director |
| Directing | Liv Ullmann | Director |
| Directing | Jaco Van Dormael | Director |
| Directing | Régis Wargnier | Director |
| Directing | Yoshishige Yoshida | Director |
| Directing | Zhang Yimou | Director |
| Directing | Merzak Allouache | Director |
| Directing | Gabriel Axel | Director |
| Directing | James Ivory | Director |
| Directing | Patrice Leconte | Director |
| Directing | Ismail Merchant | Director |
| Directing | Claude Miller | Director |
| Directing | Idrissa Ouedraogo | Director |
| Directing | Jacques Rivette | Director |
| Directing | Youssef Chahine | Director |
| Directing | Lucian Pintilie | Director |
| Writing | Philippe Poulet | Idea |
| Art | Anne Andreu | Art Direction |
| Sound | Jean-Jacques Lemêtre | Music |
| Editing | Timothy Miller | Editor |
| Editing | Roger Ikhlef | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Françoise Nicolet | Costume Design |
| Production | Anne Andreu | Executive Producer |
| Production | Neal Edelstein | Producer |
| Production | Fabienne Servan Schreiber | Producer |
| Production | Humbert Balsan | Associate Producer |
| Production | Søren Stærmose | Co-Producer |
| Production | Ángel Amigo | Co-Producer |
| Camera | Didier Ferry | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Jean-Yves Le Mener | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Frédéric LeClair | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Sarah Moon | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Sven Nykvist | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Philippe Poulet | Director of Photography |