CEP-UNIGE and AMAGE invite you to a screening of Farha, directed by Darin J. Sallam. Inspired by true events, the film follows Farha, a young Palestinian girl whose life changes dramatically in 1948. The screening will be followed by a discussion on the film and the Nakba.
Original version with French subtitles.
Lucio Castro’s 2025 film observes Adnan, a young art student who arrives in New York for a summer internship at a gallery where an unconventional older artist he once met exhibits. As past and present interleave, encounters—artistic and erotic—fracture his everyday reality. Castro’s camera favors intimate textures and quiet surrealism, blending raw tenderness with a serene, Dada-tinged lyricism. Presented at ACID, Cannes 2025, the film probes desire, memory and the unstable architecture of romantic longing.
Video discussion with the director Lucio Castro.
In English, Spanish – French subtitles.
CineGlobe is a singular science film festival held at CERN, exploring the fertile ground where science, technology and culture meet. Rather than focusing on traditional science fiction or didactic documentaries, it showcases inventive films that draw inspiration from scientific ideas and use storytelling to spark curiosity, reflection and debate. Each edition is guided by a broad thematic thread, offering a bold and imaginative look at contemporary issues — from climate change to digital societies — while celebrating creativity, narrative power and fresh perspectives on science.
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.
Ernst Zürcher and Jean-Pierre Duval’s lyrical documentary blends scientific inquiry and poetic imagery to explore an ancient, venerated forest. Drawing on forest science and filmic observation, it examines the idea of a forest’s “collective intelligence” and follows encounters with a deer both visible and invisible — a figure that ties myth, art (echoes of Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke) and ecology. Quiet, textured cinematography and contemplative rhythms foreground biodiversity, climate regulation and our lost harmony with the land, balancing empirical insight with a meditative emotional core.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with:
– Ernst Zürcher – forestry engineer (ETH Zurich, EPFL, HES Bern, UNIL), author of *Trees, Between Visible and Invisible* and director of the film
– Jean-Pierre Duval – photographer and filmmaker
– Sophie Swaton – founder of the Zoein Foundation, philosopher and economist, lecturer-researcher at UNIL and contributor to the film.
In French.
Helena Dali’s documentary reconstructs the life of Swiss entrepreneur Cäsar Dubler and the textile empire he built in Catalonia. Seen through the eyes of his grandchildren, the film interweaves family albums, Swiss archives and Catalan landscapes in an intimate, archival-driven study of industry, exile and memory. It traces the rise and decline of a family business against twentieth-century social and political upheavals, favouring textured images and contemplative rhythms to evoke the traces and silences that shape personal and collective history.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with director Helena Dali and Sébastien Farré, director of the Maison de l’histoire and co-director of the Festival Histoire et Cité.
Original version in Swiss German, German and Spanish with French subtitles
Curated with Animatou, this relaxed screening invites audiences into a gentle cinematic space where the lights stay soft and the door remains open. The program showcases short animated works that favour texture, rhythm and intimate gestures, presented with lowered sound to welcome diverse needs. Emphasizing presence and sensory detail over plot, the session foregrounds communal response—laughter, movement, quiet—while offering a calm, attentive frame for discovering films in an accessible, non-judgemental atmosphere.
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