Housed within the Maison des Arts du Grütli, Les Cinémas du Grütli is distinguished for its commitment to showcasing independent, international, and avant-garde films. Featuring multiple screening rooms, the cinema caters to cinephiles with a diverse daily selection of cinematic expressions, incorporating retrospectives, thematic cycles, and a thoughtful program tailored for a young audience. Notably, the cinema engages in collaborations with various cultural festivals and hosts premieres in the presence of film directors.
Two cinephile-focused screenings and a collaborative workshop present neglected perspectives by women filmmakers. Gertrud Pinkus’s Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio offers a contemplative portrait that privileges silence and restrained mise-en-scène, inviting reflection on gender and memory; Pinkus will be present. Une autre histoire, by Tula Roy and Christoph Wirsing, explores the history of Swiss feminism from 1910 to 1991.
A Wikipedia workshop accompanies the programme, focusing on documenting Swiss women directors – In French. To register: info@loreleyfilms.ch
Gala-Alexa Amagat, project officer at the ALIPH Foundation; Béatrice Blandin, conservator of archaeology at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève; and Palestinian archaeologist Fadel Al Utol bring frontline experience in safeguarding endangered cultural heritage.
Through screenings of three short films and a subsequent panel, the session examines strategies for protecting cultural property in armed conflict, exploring documentation, emergency intervention, and international collaboration with case studies from Ukraine, Mosul and Gaza.
In French.
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.
Claude Goretta’s restrained, humanist drama follows a journalist who encounters Mario Ricci, a factory worker in an industrial Swiss region. Their meeting quietly exposes tensions between the media, the world of work, and everyday realities. Co-written with Georges Haldas, the film uses a documentary-inflected gaze and measured rhythms to examine representation, social change, and moral solitude. Sparse narration and attentive observation create an intimate, textured atmosphere where ordinary lives and ethical questions unfold.
Follow Komaneko, a curious little cat, as she makes her own films in four tender, playful shorts. Each story sparks imagination, invites collaborative creativity and gently reveals how making images is a craft and a joyful game. Live musicians bring the world to life with percussion, guitars, keys, voices and found objects, blending electronica, jazz and indie-pop into bright, rhythmic soundscapes that delight young ears and bodies.
In French. Kids ages 3 and up.
Cinéopéras gathers four film evenings curated by artists from the season, each screening chosen in dialogue with the selector’s artistic universe. Curators Kyle Abraham, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Marie-Ève Signeyrole and Philippe Jaroussky present works that trace convergences between music, theatre, choreography and cinematic form. The programme favors striking visual textures, intimate soundscapes and performances that blur stage and screen, inviting a reflective, sensory encounter with film as a living, interpretive art.
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