We’re bidding farewell to 2025 with Liera.hu’s traditional pre–New Year’s Eve party — an evening of sharp wit, laughter, and great writing.
A hundred and thirty years ago, the Lumière brothers held their very first screening at the Grand Café in Paris. Ever since, that day — December 28, 1895 — has been celebrated as the birth of cinema.
On that evening, they presented ten short films, each lasting barely forty seconds — brief, staged burlesques of human folly. Their characters stumble and bumble through life, slipping into comic mishaps — much as we still do today.
For this year’s Litera pre–New Year’s Eve party, we have invited seven writers to choose seven of those early films and, in prose, to capture the ways we now stumble through our own lives.
Seven parodies on the frailty and awkwardness of humankind, forever imagining itself divine — on our foolishness and our grace.
A tribute to the 130-year-old cinema.
