Paris – After Tim Burton, Jane Campion, Clint Eastwood and Catherine Deneuve, the German director Wim Wenders will receive this coming October the fifteenth edition of the “Lumiere” award in Lyon, France, which honors the most important figures of the seventh art.

Wim Wenders, 77, won the Palme d’Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival for “Paris – Texas.” And his cinematic films moved from segregated Berlin (“Wings of Desire” 1987) to Tokyo with his latest film “Perfect Days”, which was in competition at the Cannes festival last month, and crossed Cuba with the famous music documentary “Buena Vista. Social Club”.

The “Lumiere” company in Lyon confirmed in a statement that Wim Wenders “involves the revival of German and European cinema in the seventies and early eighties. This nomadic director has reinvented road movies.

Birthplace of cinematographer Lumiere, this nomadic film director, multifaceted and visionary, master photographer who never stopped reinventing himself, is “a long-term certainty” to be celebrated in Lyon, the report says. was added.

The award is scheduled to be presented on the twentieth of October during the “Lumiere” festival, which takes place between the fourteenth and the twenty-second of the same month, dedicated to classical cinema.

The Lumière Prize was created by Thierry Frémaux, Director General of the Lumière Institute, who heads the Cannes Film Festival, and aims to celebrate “an individual’s work and the connection he has made to the history of cinema”.

Previous recipients of the award include Francis Ford Coppola, Wong Kar-wai, Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodovar and Quentin Tarantino.