In the long tradition of nations defending their cultural inheritance against the tides of commerce and technology, France gathered the luminaries of world cinema in early September to ask a question that echoes far beyond the screen: what becomes of human artistry when the machines learn to imitate it and the platforms learn to commodify it? President Macron convened the Lumière Summit not as a celebration but as a reckoning, drawing figures like Clooney, Binoche, and Almodóvar into a working conversation about whether the economics of filmmaking can survive the dual pressures of streaming an