Vue Lumière is the film distribution division of Vue, Europe’s leading cinema operator.

Independent, international films on the big screen.

Officially launched in 2025, the company now represents a library of over 15 films from leading family fare of Bluey at the Cinema and Oscar nominee for Best Animated Feature Little Amélie to British indies starring such award-winning actors as Benedict Cumberbatch, Emma Corrin, Felicity Jones, Richard E Grant, Tilda Swinton and George MacKay to book adaptations from such bestselling writers as Max Porter and Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro to contributions by musical artists ranging from Nick Cave to Suki Waterhouse to Charli xcx.

In terms of festival and awards recognition, our films premiered at A-list festivals from Sundance to Berlin to Cannes to Venice, received multiple notable awards and were nominated for 10 BIFA across four films, two European Film Awards, one Golden Globe, seven Annies, two Oscars and a BAFTA.

Vue has 1951 screens across 222 sites in eight main territories: UK & Ireland, Italy, Germany, Poland & Lithuania, Denmark and The Netherlands.

Vue International

Vue Lumière Film Highlights

Highlights of our film releases include The Thing with Feathers based on the bestselling Max Porter book and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, British story of young female friendship, freedom and online radicalisation Brides, graphic novel adaptation starring Emma Corrin, Maika Monroe and Nicholas Galitzine 100 Nights of Hero, Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro adaptation A Pale View of Hills from the producers of Living and The Salt Path, true story about the infamous Keith Jarrett concert Köln 75 from the producers of The Secret Agent, Japan’s entry for the Oscars, Oscar nominee and their highest grossing live action film of all time Kokuho: The Kabuki Master and Italian sensations There’s Still Tomorrow that opened “bigger than Barbie” in Italy and the upcoming star-studded Diamanti by Ferzan Ozpetek.

Joining the line-up is hybrid-documentary Broken English about Marianne Faithfull and featuring Tilda Swinton and George MacKay, from directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (20,000 Days on Earth), and the producers of the upcoming Oasis tour documentary. World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival, UK Premiere at the BFI London Film Festival and North American at Sundance.

We connect our film releases across brands and events, including Letters Live with The Thing with Feathers.

Also notably Vue Lumière has released such family films as global phenomenon Bluey at the Cinema (collections: Family Trip, Let’s Play Chef and upcoming Playdates with Friends) in the UK and Ireland, as well as across Europe, and the animated Little Amélie that had its World Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and played in Competition at the Annecy Film Festival, where it won the prestigious Audience Award (won by Flow in 2024).

All our films are released in the cinema with a full theatrical window. They are available in due course on-demand on all major platforms, including Amazon Prime, Apple, Sky Store and BFI Player, as well as educational streamer Kanopy.

The Team and Distribution Partners

Vue Founder and CEO - Tim Richards, CBE

Vue Group Chief Commercial Officer - Otto Turton

Vue Lumière is led by Director of Distribution Eve Gabereau, whose background includes 20+ years in the field including releasing such seminal indie films as BAFTA and Oscar-winner Drive My Car, BAFTA and Oscar-nominated Toni Erdmann, multiple films by Jim Jarmusch, Kelly Reichardt, Joachim Trier and Alice Rohrwacher and documentaries Four Daughters by Kaouther ben Hania and Occupied City by Steve Mcqueen in partnership with A24. She is featured in the book The British Film Industry in 25 Careers: The Mavericks, Visionaries and Outsiders Who Shaped British Cinema published by Bloomsbury Press and is a leading name in Celluloid Junkie’s Top Women in Global Distribution 2025.

She works alongside Head of Distribution Johnny Carr whose career spans 20 years at Vue from cinema management to film programming to leading the path to becoming market leaders in Event Cinema, including securing the exclusive rights to bring Bluey to the big screen in multiple territories. And, Distribution Manager Rachele Parietti who has a background in festivals, distribution and event cinema, including National Theatre Live.

Together they are supported by the Vue teams across Screen Content, Marketing, Corporate Sales, Events, PR, Communications & Branding, Digital and Technology, Legal and Finance.

They also work closely with agencies from Deluxe as their partner lab, PR groups from Brunswick Arts to Tigerbond, from Premier PR to DDA Global to Critical PR to Charles McDonald to Margaret, Creative Studios Bobo Creative, Intermission Film and The Pastry Shop, Digital Media Open Partners, Gruvi and Powster, Marketing Consultancies Mustard Studio, C.P.C, Sauce and Four Agency, cultural partners Letters Live, Girls on Film, Reclaim the Frame and Unifrance and Under the Milky Way for digital aggregation.

Films on our slate have premiered and/or played in such leading international festivals as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Toronto, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, Zurich, Munich, Sarajevo and Sitges, and UK & Irish festivals as BFI London, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester Animation, Dublin, Cork, Galway and Glasgow.

International Sales partners to date include Bankside, WME, mk2, Goodfellas, Pyramide, Gaga, U-Next, Global Constellation, Vision and BBC Studios. Production companies on our film slate include SunnyMarch, Lobo Films, Neon, Rosamont, Infinite Film, Phantoscopic, Rustic Canyon Pictures, Erebus Pictures, Project Infinity, Number 9 Films, Bunbuku, Lava Films, Toho Studios, IKKI Films, Maybe Movies, Puffin Pictures and One Two Films. Film Financiers on films in our library include the BFI, Film4, Ffilm Cymru Wales, Great Point Media and Align.