Cinélux is an independent cinema managed by a passionate association of film enthusiasts. Its programming often includes special events where filmmakers, actors, and subject matter experts engage in insightful discussions and debates tied to the featured films. Collaborating with various associations, non-governmental organizations, and festivals, Cinélux also regularly screens children’s films and exclusive premieres.
Vadim Jendreyko’s essay film crosses Europe to examine its shifting borders through encounters and personal narratives. Traversing memories, myths and contemporary realities, the director composes a layered portrait of a continent haunted by repeating histories yet animated by those who seek to reclaim and transform dark legacies. Shot with a contemplative rhythm and attentive framing, the film balances doubt and a fragile hope, melding documentary fragments into a textured meditation on identity, inheritance and the possibilities of small, luminous practices.
Followed by a discussion with the director Vadim Jendreyko and Jean Perret, journalist and former director of the Visions du Réel Festival and of the Film Department at HEAD – Geneva.
In collaboration with Visions du Réel.
In German (original version), with French subtitles. Discussion in French.
MOLA is a tender and deeply moving documentary portraying Kunsang Wangmo, a Tibetan Buddhist nun exiled since 1959, as she approaches her 100th birthday and holds onto the wish to return to her homeland before she dies. Blending quiet wisdom, childlike playfulness and everyday spirituality, the film captures the beauty and fragility of a life nearing its end, and is followed by a discussion in collaboration with the Swiss–Tibetan Friendship Society.
The film is in Tibetan, with French subtitles.
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian occupied territories since 2022, is a jurist who has denounced the recent crimes in Gaza as genocide.
This session uses Christophe Cotteret’s film DISUNITED NATIONS as a starting point to examine the UN’s institutional failures, political paralysis, and the erosion of international law. Albanese discusses accountability, the divergent roles of the General Assembly and Security Council, and the implications for civilian protection and global governance.
In French.
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