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.

Little Miss Sunshine follows young Olive Hoover as she dreams of entering a children’s beauty pageant. The family’s road trip in a battered van becomes a tender, offbeat comedy of flaws and solidarity. Blending sharp humour and warm intimacy, the film subverts the American dream to explore self-image, performance culture and familial care. Screened in the context of Mental Health Week, it invites laughter, reflection and collective conversation about authenticity, bodily freedom and shared resilience.

In English with French subtitles.
Screening as part of Mental Health Week 2026.
In collaboration with UNIGE Mental Health Week.

Alain Tanner’s 1979 Messidor follows two young women, Jeanne and Marie, as they leave Geneva and travel across Switzerland without a fixed destination. Rendered in a cool, observational style emblematic of the new Swiss cinema, the film stages an errant journey that reveals class divides and the pressures that shape female experience. Through open landscapes and intimate encounters, Tanner explores desire, freedom and the uneasy estrangement of youth within a conformist society.

In French.

Justine Triet’s intimate political drama follows a political reporter who must cover a presidential runoff while navigating a turbulent family situation with her former partner and their children. Mixing intimate chronicle and political agitation, the film blurs private and public spheres with a near‑documentary energy. Triet captures an era shaped by media hyperconnectivity, exploring contemporary relationships, professional pressure and emotional ambivalence through sharp performances and a restless, observant camera.

In French.

In a Bamako courtyard, Abderrahmane Sissako stages a symbolic trial in which representatives of African civil society confront international financial institutions. Blending fiction, documentary and political reflection, the film gives a human face to the consequences of globalisation, transforming private spaces into a communal courtroom. Lyrical yet precise, Sissako observes everyday life around the performance, probing power imbalances between Africa and global institutions with compassion and quiet urgency.

In French.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Palme d’Or–winning film follows an ailing uncle who withdraws to the countryside surrounded by family. In his final hours he is visited by spectral beings and memories that prompt a gentle revisiting of his life and past incarnations. Blending quotidian realism with moments of the uncanny, the film unfolds as a contemplative meditation on time, memory and the porous borders between the living, the dead and the natural world, rendered in a spacious, lyrical cinematic language.

Thai with French subtitles.