Saturday 28 March, 18:00

Cinéopéra — Diana Markosian (Around Madame Butterfly)

Booking Required

Filmmaker Diana Markosian offers a cinematic meditation inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, blending documentary intimacy with operatic drama. Her selection foregrounds personal narratives and staged tableaux, privileging luminous compositions, close-up portraiture and a haunting soundtrack. The program weaves memory and performance, exploring themes of displacement, longing and identity through images that feel both archival and theatrical. It’s an atmospheric encounter with image, voice and the operatic imagination.

In French.

Rue du Général-DUFOUR 16,
1204 Genève

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16 – 25 January

Black Movie Festival

Independent Cinema

Multiple locations

The Black Movie International Independent Film Festival returns for its 27th edition, opening the cultural year with around a hundred bold and independent films from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Featuring both feature-length and short films for adults and children alike, the festival showcases contemporary cinema beyond the mainstream, offering a vibrant journey through today’s most daring international creations.

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Wednesday 21 January, 19:00

De Thônex à Madagascar

Independent Cinema

Salle des Fêtes de Thônex

Presented by the Grave’Side Family association, De Thônex à Madagascar chronicles a year of local mobilisation and a solidarity trip to Ambohimanatrika. In September 2025 fifteen young people from Thônex travelled to Madagascar to help build a village water network. The film follows their collective effort with documentary immediacy, intimate portraits and a focus on youth-driven commitment. It explores themes of solidarity, responsibility and cross-cultural exchange, rendered in a warm, humanist register that highlights labour, landscape and the emotional bonds formed along the journey.

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Friday 23 January, 19:30

Celda 211

Independent Cinema

Aula Geisendorf

Daniel Monzón’s Celda 211 (2009) plunges viewers into a viscerally tense prison world. During a sudden mutiny, a young guard is forced to pose as an inmate to survive; the film unfolds through tight, claustrophobic framing and relentless stakes. Anchored by powerhouse performances from Luis Tosar and Alberto Ammann, it probes authority, identity and moral compromise under pressure. Sparse, urgent in tone, the picture balances gritty realism with human complexity, earning its place as a landmark of contemporary Spanish cinema.

In Spanish original version with English subtitles.

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Saturday 24 January, 15:00

Black Movie – The Return of the Projectionnist

Independent Cinema

MEA

The Return of the Projectionist unfolds in a small Azerbaijani village where a forgotten cinema hides in the hills. Poetic and gently observant, the film follows two people who set about repairing the space, their imagination and care restoring both the auditorium and communal memory. Through textured frames, quiet long takes and warm, tactile light, it becomes a meditation on passion, the love of cinema and how fragile cultural places bind a community. Perceptive and tender in tone.

In original version with French & English subtitles.

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Sunday 25 January, 18:00

BLACK MOVIE – Closing ceremony

Independent Cinema

Alhambra

Miro Remo’s Better Go Mad in the Wild follows Franta and Ondra, inseparable sixty-something twins eking out a life on the margins of Central Europe’s forests. Shot with a tender, observational eye and playful eccentricity, Remo balances intimate character study and whimsical naturalism. The film explores aging, companionship and freedom through small rituals and textured, wood-smoke visuals. Anchored by two unforgettable performances, it unfolds as a humane, slightly mischievous portrait of resilience and the quiet joys of belonging.

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5 January – 23 March

Lost in Narration

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Curated by the Geneva University Film Club, Lost in Narration gathers films by directors such as Federico Fellini, Alain Resnais and David Lynch to explore non-linear, disorienting storytelling. The series maps fragmented narratives and dreamlike logic, offering snapshots of memory, identity and cinematic form. Expect varied visual textures—from luminous retro frames to saturated nocturnes—and an emotional pulse that moves between unease and melancholic wonder. It highlights how narrative instability opens new dramaturgies and sensory possibilities in cinema.

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Cinéopéra — Diana Markosian (Around Madame Butterfly)