30 October – 8 November

GIFF – 32nd Geneva International Film Festival

Founded in 1995, the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) is one of Geneva’s longest-standing cinema festivals and among the first in the world to integrate television into its programming. A hub for experimentation, encounters, and celebration, the ten-day festival presents films, series, and immersive audiovisual experiences to some 35,000 visitors each year. GIFF also hosts the Geneva Digital Market, Switzerland’s only meeting point for professionals in innovation and audiovisual content, and maintains year-round activities including school programmes and GIFF UNLIMITED events. Recognized as a key driver of Switzerland’s audiovisual sector, GIFF combines artistic ambition with international reach.

Genève,
Switzerland
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Thursday 22 October, 20:30

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Palme d’Or–winning film follows an ailing uncle who withdraws to the countryside surrounded by family. In his final hours he is visited by spectral beings and memories that prompt a gentle revisiting of his life and past incarnations. Blending quotidian realism with moments of the uncanny, the film unfolds as a contemplative meditation on time, memory and the porous borders between the living, the dead and the natural world, rendered in a spacious, lyrical cinematic language.

Thai with French subtitles.

12 October – 1 November

Christoffer Ellegaard, artist and illustrator born in 1988 in Elsinore (Denmark) and based in Geneva, trained at the HEAD and the Hochschule Luzern. His drawing and painting practice is recognised for the finesse of its line and the poetry of its images; he exhibits in Switzerland and internationally and regularly publishes illustrated books.

This workshop invites participants and the public to explore body and character through exercises and experiments. Each participant makes a head, a torso and legs that can be freely combined to give life to a multitude of surprising hybrid characters.

14 September – 7 December

Founded in Geneva in 1951 by cinema enthusiasts including Alain Tanner and Claude Goretta, the Ciné-club universitaire de Genève (CCU) has spent 75 years bringing audiences together around singular films and shared discoveries.

To celebrate its 75th anniversary, the CCU looks back across more than seven decades of cinema with a programme of 30 films spanning continents, genres, generations and perspectives — while looking towards the future of the seventh art.

22 September – 15 December

The Department of Ancient Studies at the Faculty of Humanities (UNIGE) is offering a series of public lectures dedicated to interactions, exchanges, and cultural dynamics in the ancient world. Faculty members and researchers will explore diplomatic relations, the movement of objects, religious and linguistic influences, and issues of identity at the crossroads of the Mediterranean and the ancient Near East.

In French.

Thursday 22 October, 15:00

Driven by a deep passion for Japan’s arts and culture, this workshop invites preteens to explore the technique and visual language of manga portraiture. Young mangakas will learn to draw a characteristic portrait—large expressive eyes, simplified mouth, dynamic hair—focusing on clean strokes and controlled lines. The session explains the specific rules and expressive vocabulary of manga, helping participants sharpen observational skills and develop creativity through structured exercises and guided practice.

In French.

19 – 23 October

Lucy lives with her family on a small isolated island, where her extraordinary gifts provoke suspicion and rejection. When she meets Milly — a little girl only Lucy can see — she sets off on a poignant adventure to unravel the mystery of her powers. Told with a lyrical, intimate eye, the film explores themes of belonging, otherness and the fragile border between imagination and reality, using windswept landscapes and close, expressive images to evoke mood and emotional truth.

In French.

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