Monday 20 April, 18:30

Special Screening: I Shall Not Hate

Booking Required

Tal Barda’s documentary follows Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, the Palestinian physician whose 2009 personal tragedy—loss of three daughters and a niece when his home was bombed—propelled him into a life of advocacy. Through testimony and witnessing, the film traces his exile to Canada and unwavering call for reconciliation, underscored by his multiple nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. Poised and resolute, the film is a quiet, powerful portrait of grief, resilience and the search for hope amid political rupture.

The screening will be followed by a discussion in English in the presence of the film’s protagonist, the Palestinian physician Izzeldin Abuelaish.

English and Arab speaking | French subtitles

Blvd de Saint-Georges 8,
1205 Genève

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Photo Credit: Cinélux

17 – 26 April

Visions du Réel

Independent Cinema

Multiple locations

FURTHER AFIELD

Visions du Réel, founded in 1969, showcases bold and singular works rooted in past, present, and future realities. For ten days, the festival transforms Nyon into a hub where generations of filmmakers and artists from around the world connect with an engaged audience. Recognized as one of the leading international festivals dedicated to documentary and “cinéma du réel,” it premieres many films globally and serves as a key platform for professional exchange and creative collaboration.

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30 March – 15 June

White Coats and Silver Screens

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

A spring cycle from the Geneva University Film Club marks the 150th anniversary of UNIGE’s Faculty of Medicine, gathering ten films that probe medicine’s moral and emotional terrain. From Alfred Hitchcock’s psychoanalytic intrigue to Ingmar Bergman’s introspective intensity and David Cronenberg’s clinical horror, the program sketches portraits of doctors, caregivers and patients: dream-work, ethical dilemmas, bodily fragility and devoted care. Shot in textures from dreamlike chiaroscuro to clinical close-ups, the films balance unease and tenderness with exacting cinematic rhythms.

In French.

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Tuesday 21 April, 20:00

Alone Among the Living? Meeting a Voluntary Castaway

Independent Cinema

Uni Dufour

Matthieu Juncker’s documentary follows a marine biologist who spends 200 days alone on an atoll to observe an endangered ecosystem. Shot in intimate long takes and immersive natural sound, the film combines scientific observation with lyrical reflection, charting the rhythms of solitude, vulnerability and resilience. Through patient framing and close observation, it explores human proximity to nonhuman life and the ethical questions of witnessing fragile environments. Projection followed by a discussion with director.

In French.

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Wednesday 22 April, 18:30

Special Premiere: The Narrative

Independent Cinema

Cinélux

Bernard Weber and Martin Schilt examine the Kweku Adoboli affair with forensic rigor in THE NARRATIVE, reconstructing the trial from original transcripts. Blending archival footage, testimony from close associates and staged courtroom re-enactments filmed in Ghana, the film interrupts familiar journalistic frames to expose the mechanics of global banking and a contested justice. Sparse, observational camerawork and incisive edits foreground uncertainty over tidy explanations, inviting reflection on culpability, media narrative and the human costs behind a headline.

The screening will be followed by a discussion in the presence of co-director Bernard Weber.

English speaking | french subtitles

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Thursday 23 April, 20:30

IMIHIGO – Le serment Rwandais

Independent Cinema

Cinélux

Shyaka Kagame’s observational documentary unfolds in contemporary Rwanda through three protagonists linked by Imihigo, a national development ‘competition’. Mayor Richard races to meet a hundred local targets, Innocent tends grassroots implementation in a struggling village, and Sandrine, returning from the diaspora, navigates cultural reintegration. With patient framing and textured, close-up rhythms, the film probes civic ambition, personal duty and the fragile choreography between policy and everyday life, offering an intimate, atmospheric study of renewal without easy conclusions.

English voices | French subtitles

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Wednesday 29 April, 19:45

En terrain neutre

Independent Cinema

Les Scala

Directors Stéphane Goël and Mehdi Atmani undertake an intimate, observational road movie that interrogates Swiss neutrality through personal friendship and travel. Following two sons—one of a Vaud farmer, the other of a naturalized Kabyle fisherman—the film wanders across borders and memories as Europe’s tensions loom. It balances wry intimacy and melancholy, mixing textured landscapes, candid close-ups and a quietly questioning voice. A quirky, reflective identity quest that explores belonging, national conscience and the fragile limits of being ‘neutral.’

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Special Screening: I Shall Not Hate