Tuesday 20 October, 17:00

Another World Is Possible – When Communities Make a Difference

Booking Required

Action de Carême presents a pair of documentary shorts that use intimate testimony and observational camerawork to examine gender, food sovereignty and climate resilience. The first film traces shifting gender roles across Guatemala, Burkina Faso, the Philippines and Switzerland, exploring how dialogue and local solutions can transform power relations and advance the right to food. The second follows community efforts to adopt improved cookstoves, reducing wood use, deforestation and respiratory risk. Subtitled in French, the films favor textured, human-scale portraits.

Rue Fendt 1,
1201 Genève

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Photo Credit: Jörg Balsiger/Action de Carême

7 September – 6 October

Patricia Plattner Retrospective

Independent Cinema

Carouge

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

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1 – 10 October

Animatou

Independent Cinema Kids

Multiple locations

Animatou is the leading animation film festival in French-speaking Switzerland, dedicated to showcasing the best of contemporary animated cinema and championing bold, author-driven works that rarely find space in traditional theatres. Both locally rooted and internationally recognised, the festival brings together generations, cultures and sensibilities through a rich programme of competitive short films, special screenings, feature films, retrospectives, workshops and masterclasses. With a strong commitment to education and year-round activities for schools and the wider public, Animatou has become a key platform for animation in Geneva and beyond.

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Monday 5 October, 21:00

Les Idiots

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Lars von Trier’s radical early film, the second work emerging from the Dogme95 movement, stages a provocative experiment that blurs performance and life. Shot with a stripped-down aesthetic and handheld immediacy, it follows a group who deliberately act ‘idiotic’ to unsettle social norms. The film interrogates marginalization, spectatorship and ethical boundaries, trading polished craft for raw intensity. Its explicit scenes and confrontational tone challenge viewers while offering a stark meditation on freedom and shame. ! Warning !: This film contains explicit scenes that may offend the audience’s sensibilities. 18+

In Danish with French subtitles.

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14 September – 7 December

Once upon a time… Ciné-club

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

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.

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3 September – 10 October

Double Extraction de Nibards

Independent Cinema

Halle Nord

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

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Monday 5 October, 19:00

Walkabout

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Nicolas Roeg’s first feature follows a brother and sister stranded in the Australian desert who must learn to survive after encountering a young Aboriginal man on a walkabout. A major work of 1970s British and Australian cinema, the film contrasts Western and Aboriginal worldviews while offering a striking visual meditation on landscape, survival and dislocation. Roeg’s elliptical editing and luminous cinematography make the narrative an atmospheric, sometimes haunting study of cultural encounter and loss.

In English with French subtitles.

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