Thomas Lacoste’s SOULÈVEMENTS unfolds as a choral portrait in sixteen voices, a reflective and intimate study of an intergenerational movement resisting land and water grab, industrial devastation and rising authoritarian pressures. Lacoste favors attentive rhythms and textured close-ups that privilege lived experience over spectacle, interweaving personal trajectories into a collective mosaic. The film gauges how communities experiment with other ways of living and new relations to the living, mapping emotional and political terrains with immersive, tactile images that broaden our sense of political possibility.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with director Thomas Lacoste and representatives from the Geneva Earth Uprisings.

In collaboration with the Geneva Earth Uprisings, Alternatiba Léman, and the Green Film Festival

In French.

Atom Egoyan’s Ararat frames the legacy of the 1915 Armenian genocide through a mosaic of interconnected lives. Layering an artist painting his mother, a director staging his definitive film, a young man at customs, a daughter seeking her missing father, a lecturer and an actor confronting role and responsibility, the film probes memory, exile and the struggle to reconstruct a contested past. Sparse, textured imagery and careful rhythms create a reflective, often unsettling atmosphere that examines how history is performed, remembered and inherited.

English with French subtitles – Followed by a talk with Arsinée Khanjian and Valentina Calzolari Bouvier.

Helena Dali’s documentary reconstructs the life of Swiss entrepreneur Cäsar Dubler and the textile empire he built in Catalonia. Seen through the eyes of his grandchildren, the film interweaves family albums, Swiss archives and Catalan landscapes in an intimate, archival-driven study of industry, exile and memory. It traces the rise and decline of a family business against twentieth-century social and political upheavals, favouring textured images and contemplative rhythms to evoke the traces and silences that shape personal and collective history.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with director Helena Dali and Sébastien Farré, director of the Maison de l’histoire and co-director of the Festival Histoire et Cité.

Original version in Swiss German, German and Spanish with French subtitles