Comme au cinéma! invites a communal, after-dark screening that turns everyday corners into cinematic rooms. The evening favours cozy shared attention: a soft, tactile mise-en-scène of warm light, familiar laughter and the hush before the first frame. Curated for young audiences, the program privileges approachable storytelling, sensory textures and moments of quiet humour. The focus is less on spectacle than on togetherness—how images can fold ordinary evenings into small, memorable narratives.
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.
Giulio Regeni, Tutto il male del mondo reconstructs the judicial truth behind the abduction, torture and murder of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni near Cairo in February 2016. This investigative documentary pieces together legal findings, testimony and archival material to trace the case’s painstaking unraveling, offering a sober, forensic cinematic approach. The film’s tone is restrained yet urgent, foregrounding human loss and the pursuit of justice. Original Italian audio with English subtitles.
Special screening in partnership with Amnesty International and in collaboration with the Geneva section of the Partito Democratico and ANPI – Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d’Italia.
An intimate retrospective devoted to director Patricia Plattner, presenting a selection of her films alongside a reading-performance and a small exhibition. Plattner’s cinema favors close human encounters and observational compositions, blending subtle humour with poignant emotional truth. The programme highlights her attentive direction and narrative economy, tracing recurring themes of identity, everyday intimacy and the passage of time. Screenings offer a chance to rediscover the quiet intensity and warm, lyrical realism of her work. An event presented by the association Le Bazar de la Sirène in collaboration with Luna Films and the City of Carouge.
On the program:
– Special screenings at Cinéma Bio
– An inaugural staged reading on September 5, at the Théâtre des Amis
– An exhibition, Le Petit Bazar de Patricia, at Place du Temple
Tabarak Allah Allas’s film is the first feature-length motion picture entirely hand-painted in the style of Vincent van Gogh. Using a painterly animation approach, it stages a singular encounter between cinema and painting. After Van Gogh’s death, a young man investigates the circumstances of his disappearance by meeting those who knew the painter. Beyond biography, the film meditates on artistic creation, perception and how an artwork continues to live after its author, revisiting the artist’s life through his canvases.
English and Polish with French subtitles.
Preceded by Mawtini (2024, 13′), Allah Tabarak Allas, in the presence of the director.
Screening in collaboration with the Animatou festival.
Ciel Sourdeau’s eight-minute, seventeen-second video unfolds as a subversive tutorial: part gore, part experimental film, it repurposes pedagogical forms into an improvised, transgressive bricolage. Mixed by Adrien Kessler, the piece layers tactile sound and rough-edged visuals to probe bodies, identity and the limits of instruction. Its stripped, confrontational aesthetic alternates shock and dark humour, inviting a re-examination of learning rituals and the politics of representation through intimate, unsettling imagery.
Opening: 3 September, 18:00
Sergei Parajanov’s seminal avant-garde film reimagines the biopic of Armenian poet Sayat‑Nova as a sequence of poetic tableaux. Prioritizing image, symbol and ritual over conventional narrative, the film stages a meditative exploration of art, spirituality and cultural memory. Lush compositions, theatrical performances and rhythmic montage create a sensorial, dreamlike experience that foregrounds heritage and identity. The Color of Pomegranates remains a visually radical testament to cinematic poetry and the transformative power of metaphor.
In Armenian with French subtitles.
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