13 – 22 November

28th Filmar Festival in Latin America

FILMAR en América Latina returns to Geneva from 13 to 22 November 2026 for its 28th edition. Switzerland’s leading festival dedicated to Latin American cinema will showcase more than 70 films, including 50 feature-length productions.

This year, the festival pays tribute to Teresa Sánchez, a multifaceted artist and prominent figure in Mexican cinema. The programme also celebrates the richness of Latin American music, with films exploring its many forms as well as screenings followed by live recitals.

Gender and identity, memory, the environment and Indigenous struggles are among the key themes running through this year’s programme. Parties, debates and encounters will further foster dialogue across cultures and generations.

Genève,
Switzerland

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14 September – 7 December

Once upon a time… Ciné-club

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

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.

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Monday 9 November, 20:30

UNIGE x Let’s Doc!: Le retour du projectionniste

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Orkhan Aghazadeh’s tender documentary follows an elderly projectionist in an isolated Azerbaijani village as he strives to revive the local cinema after years without a screening room. Observational and intimate in approach, the film captures quiet gestures, communal rituals and the projectionist’s relationship to memory, passion and intergenerational transmission. Through patient framing and subtle soundscapes, it becomes a reflection on cultural persistence, the fate of traditional film spaces and the communal power of shared images.

Talysh and Russian with French subtitles. Screening in collaboration with Let’s Doc! (National Documentary Month). Screening followed by a discussion.

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Wednesday 11 November, 18:30

Special Screening: Blade Runner

Independent Cinema

Bureau culturel

Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner plunges into a rain-drenched, neon metropolis where bounty hunter Rick Deckard tracks synthetic replicants. The film’s measured pacing and lingering frames foreground questions of identity, memory and empathy, probing what separates human from artificial life. Dense, noir-inflected visuals and a melancholic atmosphere give the story an elegiac tone, balancing tense encounters with reflective solitude. Its interrogation of consciousness and longing lingers long after the credits.

Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion. In French.

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Wednesday 11 November, 18:00

Freedom – The Fate of Shewit

Independent Cinema

Cinéma Bio

Anne-Frédérique Widmann’s documentary traces the long fight of Shewit Tekie, whose search for safety becomes a portrait of resilience and self-determination. Moving from Eritrea to Libya and then to Switzerland, the film follows her struggle to rebuild her life after exploitation, uncertainty, and the threat of deportation. Filmed over ten years, it blends testimony and intimacy in a restrained, human approach that gives full weight to a powerful story of emancipation.

The screening will be followed by a short discussion with the film’s protagonist, Shewit Tekie; the director, Anne-Frédérique Widmann; and the co-head of the organization AMIC, Melete Solomon.

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Wednesday 11 November, 14:45

UNIGE x Terre des Hommes: Le petit prince

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Mark Osborne’s animated adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s tale follows a little girl living in a world governed by success, who meets an old aviator and through his story rediscovers imagination. Mixing digital animation and stop‑motion techniques, the film offers a layered visual poetry that preserves the book’s themes—childhood, curiosity and the need to see beyond appearances—while questioning the place of wonder in a rational, achievement‑driven society. Intimate and visually inventive, it speaks to both children and adults.

In English with French subtitles. Part of the Cinémas du Grütli’s screenings for young audiences, in collaboration with Terre des Hommes.

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Thursday 12 November, 18:30

Special Screening: Between the Plants: A Change of Perspective

Independent Cinema

Cinélux

This Swiss documentary by Antshi von Moos follows a poetic inquiry into the hidden chemistry and quiet intelligence of the plant world. From Zurich laboratories to living gardens, it brings together scientific research, ecological thought, and artistic imagination. Biologist Florianne Koechlin traces communication between plants, fungi, insects, and microbes, while Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger shape surreal installations from their living garden. The result is a sensorial reflection on the bonds linking nature, art, and human perception.

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