Explore classic animated scenes that ask big questions about feelings, choices, and what makes us human. Watch short film excerpts and listen to music and voices as images shift. Draw responses, share ideas in small groups, and try playful experiments that reveal how stories teach us to think. The mentor-and-child story sparks imagination while teaching observation and critical thinking through color, movement, and sound.
Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion.
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.
Orkhan Aghazadeh’s tender documentary follows an elderly projectionist in an isolated Azerbaijani village as he strives to revive the local cinema after years without a screening room. Observational and intimate in approach, the film captures quiet gestures, communal rituals and the projectionist’s relationship to memory, passion and intergenerational transmission. Through patient framing and subtle soundscapes, it becomes a reflection on cultural persistence, the fate of traditional film spaces and the communal power of shared images.
Talysh and Russian with French subtitles. Screening in collaboration with Let’s Doc! (National Documentary Month). Screening followed by a discussion.
Explore a showcase of 84 nominated timepieces and hands-on workshops. Join guided tours with watchmaking experts, listen to ticking mechanisms, and see delicate gears turn. Try beginner watchmaking skills like assembly and bevelling, or join youngsters’ sessions to make a colourful dial, practise engraving, or dismantle and rebuild a clock. Sessions mix sight, sound and fine touch to spark curiosity, creativity and careful observation in young makers.
Kids ages 4–12.
Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner plunges into a rain-drenched, neon metropolis where bounty hunter Rick Deckard tracks synthetic replicants. The film’s measured pacing and lingering frames foreground questions of identity, memory and empathy, probing what separates human from artificial life. Dense, noir-inflected visuals and a melancholic atmosphere give the story an elegiac tone, balancing tense encounters with reflective solitude. Its interrogation of consciousness and longing lingers long after the credits.
Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion. In French.
Mark Osborne’s animated adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s tale follows a little girl living in a world governed by success, who meets an old aviator and through his story rediscovers imagination. Mixing digital animation and stop‑motion techniques, the film offers a layered visual poetry that preserves the book’s themes—childhood, curiosity and the need to see beyond appearances—while questioning the place of wonder in a rational, achievement‑driven society. Intimate and visually inventive, it speaks to both children and adults.
In English with French subtitles. Part of the Cinémas du Grütli’s screenings for young audiences, in collaboration with Terre des Hommes.
Follow a gentle story that turns an ordinary walk into a shared adventure. As the tale unfolds, children discover how friendship can grow step by step. After the story, they can dive into a small workshop and make their own creation, using imagination, color, and simple materials. It is a cosy mix of listening, exploring, and making, with a calm rhythm that invites young minds to dream.
In French. Kids ages 4 and up.
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