Saturday 28 March, 18:00

Cinéopéra — Diana Markosian (Around Madame Butterfly)

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Filmmaker Diana Markosian offers a cinematic meditation inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, blending documentary intimacy with operatic drama. Her selection foregrounds personal narratives and staged tableaux, privileging luminous compositions, close-up portraiture and a haunting soundtrack. The program weaves memory and performance, exploring themes of displacement, longing and identity through images that feel both archival and theatrical. It’s an atmospheric encounter with image, voice and the operatic imagination.

In French.

Rue du Général-DUFOUR 16,
1204 Genève

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5 January – 23 March

Lost in Narration

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Curated by the Geneva University Film Club, Lost in Narration gathers films by directors such as Federico Fellini, Alain Resnais and David Lynch to explore non-linear, disorienting storytelling. The series maps fragmented narratives and dreamlike logic, offering snapshots of memory, identity and cinematic form. Expect varied visual textures—from luminous retro frames to saturated nocturnes—and an emotional pulse that moves between unease and melancholic wonder. It highlights how narrative instability opens new dramaturgies and sensory possibilities in cinema.

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Monday 2 February, 18:30

L’appel des Libellules

Independent Cinema

Cinélux

Être avec les Abeilles is a hopeful and thought-provoking documentary by Perrine Bertrand and Yan Grill that invites viewers to see the world through the eyes of bees. Combining stunning visuals with an urgent environmental message, the film encourages reflection on our relationship with nature and the importance of working with, rather than against, the living world. The screening will be followed by a discussion with local beekeepers and conservationists.

In French.

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Wednesday 11 February, 19:00

Anti-Nymphs | Four short films | Screening + conversation

Art & Exhibits Independent Cinema

Centre d'Art Contemporain

Gathering short works by Le Nemesiache, Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Jumana Emil Abboud and Katia Kameli, the Anti-Nymphs programme stages feminist rereadings of Greco‑Roman myths across the Mediterranean. The films foreground the aquatic—shorelines, currents and submerged histories—using textured, topographical explorations and lyrical montage to update mythological figures with political resonance. Sparse narration, tactile frames and layered soundscapes trace alternative geographies and collective memory, inviting a contemplative encounter with nature, gendered myth and the sea’s shifting allegories.

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Thursday 12 February, 20:00

Special Screening: Blade Runner

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Blade Runner (Director’s Cut) by Ridley Scott (1992, 1h56), organised by the Société de Lecture, in the presence of Professor Alexandre Pouget.

Ridley Scott’s Director’s Cut of Blade Runner is a hallucinatory neo-noir that probes memory, identity, and what it means to be human. Set in a rain-soaked, neon-lit future, the film combines moody, atmospheric cinematography with philosophical questions about creation and empathy. Harrison Ford’s brooding performance and Vangelis’s iconic score create a haunting, elegiac tone that underscores themes of mortality, longing, and the blurred boundary between man and machine.

In original English version with French subtitles.

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Thursday 12 February, 19:30

Pulp Fiction

Independent Cinema

Cinéma Nord-Sud

Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction reconfigures crime cinema with a playful, violent mosaic of interwoven stories. Winner of the Palme d’Or, the film unfolds through sharp, rhythmic dialogue, jolting ellipses and richly textured tableaux that follow small-time criminals and lost souls in Los Angeles. Its episodic structure and pop-culture riffing probe fate, moral ambiguity and the performative nature of identity. Shot with kinetic framing and vivid, often darkly comic visuals, the film’s tonal shifts make ordinary moments feel uncanny and electric.

In Original English version with French subtitles.

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Monday 2 March, 19:00

Gli appunti di Anna Azzori

Independent Cinema

Centre d'Art Contemporain

Constanze Ruhm’s essay film Gli appunti di Anna Azzori unfolds as a layered, investigative meditation on a life captured on film. Working from the earlier Anna by Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli (Berlinale Forum 1975), Ruhm assembles clusters of archival material and reflection to trace Anna Azzori’s precarious existence without resolving it. The film probes the place of women, memory and representation, deconstructing patriarchal narratives through a fragmentary, tactile cinematic language that is intimate, questioning and quietly insistent.

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Cinéopéra — Diana Markosian (Around Madame Butterfly)