Tuesday 2 June, 20:00

Special Screening: Life According to The 5 Dollar Guy

Booking Required

Gary Grenier’s intimate documentary follows Eddie Spaghetti, known as the 5 Dollar Guy, who has lived on the streets of Silver Lake for 27 years. Through close-up encounters and observational vignettes, Grenier captures his humor, resourcefulness and quiet dignity — a life of performance, recycling and community that challenges stereotypes. The film offers a poignant portrait of resilience and identity, revealing a paradoxical America seen through one man’s subtle, humane perspective.

Screening in presence of the director Gary Grenier.

Rue Saint-Joseph 47,
1227 Carouge

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May 2026

Cinéglobe

Independent Cinema

Multiple locations

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.

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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 2 June, 20:00

Special Screening: COSMOS (2024)

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Director Germinal Roaux offers a meditative and lyrical portrait set in a forgotten Yucatán village, where Lena, a 68-year-old widow weakened by illness, meets Leon, a 62-year-old Maya guardian of nature and its spirits. Their unlikely companionship unfolds through quiet, sensory frames that favor textures of landscape and ritual over exposition. The film is a philosophical fable about ageing, the silent transformations of the body and heart, and the fragile, enduring ties that bind humans to one another and to the natural world.

Avant-première with the director Germinal Roaux.

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5 – 7 June

CineGlobe 2026

Independent Cinema

CERN

CineGlobe, founded in 2007, curates a lively dialogue between art and science, and in its 15th edition explores energy, ecological, technological and generational transitions. Across screenings, immersive projects and hands-on workshops the programme traces moments of state change—gradual and abrupt—where one balance dissolves and another emerges. With a programme ranging from science documentaries to VR and animation (opening film Arco, Oscar‑nominated and Annecy Cristal winner), the festival favors sensory experiments, optical play and a quietly probing, inventive cinematic intelligence.

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Friday 5 June, 18:30

The Forgotten Occupation

Independent Cinema

Cinélux

Alain Martin’s documentary unfolds as a letter to his grandfather, returning to the US occupation of Haiti with a personal, investigative eye. Interweaving intimate memories and sweeping historical context, the film traces a paradox: how an aspirational embrace of American power shaped both an individual’s longing and a nation’s turmoil. Through textured, reflective framing, it explores exile, love, and the uncomfortable truths at the heart of freedom, balancing archival detail and personal testimony to provoke thoughtful examination rather than easy answers.

A discussion with the documentary-maker, Alain Martin, will take place after the screening.

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Tuesday 9 June, 20:00

Special Screening : Seuls les rebelles

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Danielle Arbid’s Seuls les rebelles observes an unexpected love in a Beirut on the brink. Her intimate, observational approach frames Suzanne, a sixty-something Lebanese widow of Palestinian origin, and Osmane, a young Sudanese undocumented migrant, as their fragile bond ignites amid social collapse. The film probes migration, age, identity and solidarity through textured close-ups, saturated color passages and a patient rhythm. Presented at the Berlin Festival 2026, it balances political urgency with moments of tenderness, resisting dehumanization while honoring human agency.

In the presence of director Danielle Arbid.

Arabic with French subtitles.

This event is organized in partnership with the Geneva-based association CHANCE International, which actively supports the treatment of children with cancer, primarily in Lebanon, as well as targeted research projects, particularly on the genetic causes of cancer. Every donation gives a child with cancer a chance of recovery.

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Special Screening: Life According to The 5 Dollar Guy