Aula de Geisendorf is an auditorium within the Geisendorf school complex in Délices. The multipurpose venue hosts community and cultural events including concerts, theatre, lectures, rehearsals and school ceremonies. Its intimate, adaptable space serves local associations and visiting promoters, contributing to neighbourhood cultural life as an accessible performance and meeting location.
Led by the energetic conductor P.-A. Krummenacher, the Union Accordéoniste Mixte of Geneva brings 25 accordionists on a program that ranges from cosmic soundscapes to earthy dances. Arrangements weave themes by John Williams, Hans Zimmer and Bear McCreary with pieces by Alexander Borodin, Richard Galliano and Michael Nyman, alternating cinematic swell and intimate chamber textures. Attention to dynamics and ensemble colour creates a vivid, theatrical sound world that shifts between soaring horizons and close, rhythmic clarity.
Daniel Monzón’s Celda 211 (2009) plunges viewers into a viscerally tense prison world. During a sudden mutiny, a young guard is forced to pose as an inmate to survive; the film unfolds through tight, claustrophobic framing and relentless stakes. Anchored by powerhouse performances from Luis Tosar and Alberto Ammann, it probes authority, identity and moral compromise under pressure. Sparse, urgent in tone, the picture balances gritty realism with human complexity, earning its place as a landmark of contemporary Spanish cinema.
In Spanish original version with English subtitles.
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