Thierry Frémaux

Thierry Fremaux
Fremaux in 2025
Fremaux in 2025
Born (1960-05-29) 29 May 1960 (age 66)
Tullins, Isère, France
OccupationFilm critic

Thierry Frémaux (French: [tjɛ.ʁi fʁe.mo]; born 29 May 1960) is the director of the Institut Lumière, of the Lumière Film Festival and of the Cannes Film Festival.

Education and career

Frémaux was born in Tullins, Isère. After a stint in Paris, the Frémaux family returned to southeastern France around 1970, settling in the Lyonnais suburb of Caluire-et-Cuire before moving to Les Minguettes in Vénissieux. Frémaux's father, an EDF engineer and a staunch leftist with connections to the Unified Socialist Party (PSU), deliberately chose to settle the family in the working-class district.

Frémaux was introduced to cinema at a young age by his father, who ran a film club. While studying social history at University Lyon 2, he co-founded the community radio station Radio Canut and worked as a judo instructor. He obtained his diplôme d'études approfondies with a thesis on the early history of the film magazine Positif.

In 1982, Frémaux began volunteering for the fledgling Institut Lumière after approaching its president, filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, and became a formal employee a year later. In 1995, he was appointed artistic director, and organised the centenary celebration of cinema along with Tavernier.

After declining the directorship of Cinémathèque française, Frémaux accepted Gilles Jacob's offer to serve as Artistic Delegate of the Cannes Film Festival on the condition that he retained his position at the Institut Lumière. His tenure formally began in 2001. In 2007, he was promoted to General Delegate.

In 2009, Frémaux launched a new festival, the Lumière Festival, organised by the Institut Lumière.

In 2017, Frémaux directed the feature film Lumière! l'aventure commence, a collection of restored early films by Auguste and Louis Lumière.

Bibliography

Filmography

See also

References

  1. ↑ Foundas, Scott (13 May 2013). "Cannes Honcho Thierry Fremaux Is Hollywood's Inside Man". Variety. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
  2. ↑ Buisson, Jean-Christophe (17 May 2013). "Thierry Frémaux, monsieur cinéma". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 20 September 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Péron, Didier (15 May 2007). "Thierry Frémaux, Palme pilote". Libération (in French). Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  4. ↑ Kusy, Yannick (1 June 2022). "Cannes, le cinéma, les Minguettes, le judo… Thierry Fremaux déroule le film de ses passions". France Info (in French). Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  5. ↑ Dumais, Manon (27 June 2025). "Aux origines du cinéma". La Presse (in French). Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  6. ↑ Frémaux, Thierry (31 March 2021). "Bertrand par Thierry Frémaux". Festival de Cannes (in French). Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  7. ↑ Schneider, Vanessa (21 February 2014). "Thierry Frémaux, le petit frère Lumière". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  8. ↑ "Nomination de Thierry Frémaux au poste de Délégué Général". Festival de Cannes (in French). 18 July 2007. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  9. ↑ Herzberg, Nathaniel (12 May 2009). "Thierry Frémaux, sélectionneur de fond". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  10. ↑ Houssais, Manuel (30 January 2017). "Thierry Frémaux enfant de l'Isère au Paradis des Frères Lumière". Ici (in French). Retrieved 28 March 2026.