La Beauté de l’Âne, the new film by Dea Gjinovci, blends documentary and fiction as the director accompanies her father back to his native village in Kosovo after years of exile. Through their journey, the film explores family roots, personal memory and the country’s complex history, offering a poignant reflection on grief, transmission and the search for belonging. The screening is followed by a discussion with members of the film team.
In original version with French subtitles.
Arthur Gosset’s 55-minute film Éclaireurs adopts an intimate, observational lens to trace grassroots responses to environmental and social challenges. Through closely framed encounters and measured pacing, it sketches personal commitments and collective strategies without spectacle. The film foregrounds themes of stewardship, community resilience and ethical responsibility, privileging texture, quiet moments and human-scale detail. Modest in scope but rich in atmosphere, Éclaireurs invites reflection on how everyday actions reverberate across ecological conversations.
In French.
The Green Film Festival raises awareness about the impacts of climate change and promotes sustainable lifestyles by showcasing films that offer solutions. Screenings are often followed by discussions with invited experts who address questions and inspire action for the environment.
The Festival du Film Vert is the leading documentary film festival dedicated to ecology and environmental issues in French-speaking Switzerland. Founded in 2006, it showcases Swiss and international films that address climate and environmental challenges and highlight concrete solutions. Designed as a decentralized, multi-site event, the festival prioritizes local access and complements screenings with discussions involving filmmakers, experts, and engaged voices, encouraging reflection and inspiring audiences to take action.
Directed by Alain Wirth, this documentary follows Pierre-Gilles and Antoine as they cultivate the Praz Bonjour plot above Vevey, tending vegetables through entirely natural methods. Over a year marked by climate pressures, pests and financial strain, the film observes how roadworks and neighbourly cohabitation complicate daily labour. It traces a quiet struggle for resilient, local agriculture, privileging textured, intimate images and a patient rhythm that foregrounds endurance, community and the material realities of sustaining land.
In presence of the director, Alain Wirth.
In French.
Curated loop of films by Tabarak Allah Abbas and Roman Selim Khereddine. Tabarak Allah Abbas blends painterly composition and intimate animation to probe belonging and exile — from a three-part family chronicle of second-generation immigrants to a dystopian, cyborg-infused refugee voyage. Roman Selim Khereddine uses stark observational imagery and still frames from racetracks to examine hierarchical, exploitative relationships between humans and animals and the rhythms of late-capitalist spaces. Together the works balance lyric memory and forensic observation, alternately tender, uncanny and unsparing.
Vadim Jendreyko’s essay film crosses Europe to examine its shifting borders through encounters and personal narratives. Traversing memories, myths and contemporary realities, the director composes a layered portrait of a continent haunted by repeating histories yet animated by those who seek to reclaim and transform dark legacies. Shot with a contemplative rhythm and attentive framing, the film balances doubt and a fragile hope, melding documentary fragments into a textured meditation on identity, inheritance and the possibilities of small, luminous practices.
Followed by a discussion with the director Vadim Jendreyko and Jean Perret, journalist and former director of the Visions du Réel Festival and of the Film Department at HEAD – Geneva.
In collaboration with Visions du Réel.
In German (original version), with French subtitles. Discussion in French.
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