Kino is an intimate, atmospheric independent film that traces the fragile intersections between memory and desire. Through lingering compositions, grainy textures and a measured, contemplative pace, the narrative follows a small ensemble as they negotiate loss, longing and quiet acts of repair. The film favours observational performances and visual storytelling, inviting the viewer into moments of emotional ambiguity and sensory detail rather than explicit resolution.
In French.
Set in the harsh aftermath of the Second World War, Napoli – New York follows two Neapolitan children, Carmine and Celestina, who secretly board a ship in search of Celestina’s sister in New York. With a sober, humanist gaze and evocative period detail, the film examines migration, family ties and the fragile courage of childhood. Intimate editing and textured visuals heighten the emotional stakes. In Italian and Neapolitan dialect, with some English with French subtitles.
Editor Julien Panzarasa will attend the screening.
Laugh along as Bricolo, a zany inventor, brings his wild machines to life on screen. Short films follow his startling ideas — a grafting trick to chase away mice, non-slip banana skins, and self-dancing shoes — with playful gadgets, clanking gears and slapstick movements. A live pianist adds tinkling music and rhythm to the moving pictures. Children will watch, wonder, and imagine new contraptions while enjoying sounds, colors and comic motion.
With the pianist Nicolas Hafner – Kids ages 6 and up.
A spring cycle from the Geneva University Film Club marks the 150th anniversary of UNIGE’s Faculty of Medicine, gathering ten films that probe medicine’s moral and emotional terrain. From Alfred Hitchcock’s psychoanalytic intrigue to Ingmar Bergman’s introspective intensity and David Cronenberg’s clinical horror, the program sketches portraits of doctors, caregivers and patients: dream-work, ethical dilemmas, bodily fragility and devoted care. Shot in textures from dreamlike chiaroscuro to clinical close-ups, the films balance unease and tenderness with exacting cinematic rhythms.
In French.
An intimate decade-spanning portrait of Shewit, who flees Eritrea and journeys alone to Europe, arriving in Switzerland as a teenager with dreams and hopes. Filmed over ten years, the documentary traces her struggle without residency, her fight against expulsion and her quest for emancipation. Through observational cinematography and patient long-form storytelling, the film renders resilience, longing and the everyday courage of a young woman carving a life against political and bureaucratic pressures.
Screening with the movie team.
Directed by an unspecified filmmaker, Les fleurs du Manguier unfolds as a lyrical portrait of lives shaped by displacement and memory. The film favors lingering frames, textured natural light and quiet rhythms to trace intimate connections and the small gestures that hold communities together. Along a thread of memory it follows interwoven encounters, exploring belonging, loss and resilience without revealing outcomes. Atmospheric and sensorial, the work’s strength lies in its subtle emotional logic and tactile visual poetry.
Talk with several guests as part of World Refugee Day.
LES SŒURS LUMIÈRE, the feminist film club of the Bibliothèque Filigrane, returns to Les Cinémas du Grütli with a cycle of six screenings from September 2025 to June 2026. Dedicated to the courtroom drama, this new edition offers a feminist re-reading of the genre, highlighting the challenges women face when confronted with moral and repressive orders.
Program Details:
Saint Omer — Alice Diop, 2022 (France): Thursday 25 September 2025
Une part du ciel — Bénédicte Liénard, 2002 (Belgium/France): Thursday 13 November 2025
Anna Göldin – Dernière sorcière — Gertrud Pinkus, 1992 (Switzerland): Thursday 29 January 2026
Le Silence autour de Christine M. — Marleen Gorris, 1982 (Netherlands): Thursday 5 March 2026
L’Audition — Lisa Gerig, 2023 (Switzerland): Thursday 7 May 2026
Hannah Arendt — Margarethe von Trotta, 2012 (Germany): Thursday 18 June 2026
All screening at 20:30.
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