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.
Ciel Sourdeau’s eight-minute, seventeen-second video unfolds as a subversive tutorial: part gore, part experimental film, it repurposes pedagogical forms into an improvised, transgressive bricolage. Mixed by Adrien Kessler, the piece layers tactile sound and rough-edged visuals to probe bodies, identity and the limits of instruction. Its stripped, confrontational aesthetic alternates shock and dark humour, inviting a re-examination of learning rituals and the politics of representation through intimate, unsettling imagery.
Opening: 3 September, 18:00
An intimate retrospective devoted to director Patricia Plattner, presenting a selection of her films alongside a reading-performance and a small exhibition. Plattner’s cinema favors close human encounters and observational compositions, blending subtle humour with poignant emotional truth. The programme highlights her attentive direction and narrative economy, tracing recurring themes of identity, everyday intimacy and the passage of time. Screenings offer a chance to rediscover the quiet intensity and warm, lyrical realism of her work. An event presented by the association Le Bazar de la Sirène in collaboration with Luna Films and the City of Carouge.
On the program:
– Special screenings at Cinéma Bio
– An inaugural staged reading on September 5, at the Théâtre des Amis
– An exhibition, Le Petit Bazar de Patricia, at Place du Temple
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet observes a life of ordered precision in this intimate drama about work, care and the unforeseen. Gabrielle, a 55-year-old surgeon and department head, navigates a demanding professional existence that leaves little space for personal life. When a novelist arrives to research a book, her carefully calibrated balance begins to shift. The film explores responsibility, desire and the quiet cost of devotion through restrained compositions, close textures and a contemplative emotional rhythm that lingers beyond the frame.
In presence of director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet and actress Léa Drucker.
Filmed over ten years, Freedom – Le Destin de Shewit is an intimate documentary that follows Shewit’s perilous journey from Eritrea to Switzerland. After surviving human trafficking in Libya and arriving as a teenage refugee, she faces years of legal uncertainty while pursuing autonomy. The film observes her daily struggles and quiet determination with a patient, observational camera, exploring themes of migration, resilience and the quest for personal liberty. In French.
In the presence of the film team and in collaboration with Hospice Général.
Climb, play and explore themed games that introduce kids to basic bouldering. Children move across colorful routes, feel the rough holds, and practice balance, jumps and gentle problem-solving through playful challenges. Instructors guide simple techniques, spotting and cheering as little climbers try new moves. Sessions mix movement, imagination and sensory play so kids discover strength, confidence and teamwork in a safe, playful setting.
Kids ages 5–10.
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