Thursday 19 November, 17:30

MEG X FILMAR: Violeta se fue a los cielos

Free

Andrés Wood’s 2011 drama, adapted from Ángel Parra’s book and carried by Francisca Gavilán’s performance, traces Violeta Parra’s life with lyrical intensity. Set to her own songs, the film follows the Chilean artist from rural beginnings to her travels in Europe and her relationship with Swiss musician Gilbert Favre. It evokes a restless, passionate spirit devoted to preserving folk memory, blending intimacy, music, and historical resonance in a vivid portrait of creative freedom.

In collaboration with FILMAR en América Latina.
With the presence of the Albatros bookstore and its bookseller, Rodrigo Díaz Pino

Boulevard Carl-Vogt,
65, Switzerland

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Photo Credit: Latido Films

Monday 26 October, 20:30

UNIGE x GIFF: Millenium Mambo

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Hou Hsiao-hsien’s hypnotic drama follows Vicky in early-2000s Taipei as she recalls a youth defined by nightclub nights, an unstable love affair and a pervasive sense of uncertainty about the future. With languid long takes and images bathed in light, the film transforms an intimate narrative into a meditation on memory, the passage of time and the struggle to find one’s place amid societal change. Sensory and elegiac, it privileges mood over plot.

Mandarin with French subtitles. Screening in collaboration with the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF)

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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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Tuesday 27 October, 18:30

On en rêvait – Jean-Baptiste Héritier

Independent Cinema

Cinélux

Director Jean-Baptiste Héritier’s intimate documentary follows chef Gilles Varone on an extraordinary journey from London to the opening of his restaurant and the distinctions that followed. Moving between wild-herb gathering in the mountains and the feverish rhythm of service, the film brings viewers close to the daily craft behind his career. Its attentive, immersive portrait explores ambition, dedication and the relationship between a chef and his landscape.

The screening will be followed by a discussion featuring the chef and protagonist, Gilles Varone, as well as the director, Jean-Baptiste Héritier.

Legal age: 8. Suggested age: 12.
In French.

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Wednesday 28 October, 20:00

Special Screening: Nicole Nicole

Independent Cinema

Cinéma Bio

Lauren Dällenbach’s luminous debut observes the quiet, intimate life of Nicole and her mother Alberte, who have shared the same home for over fifty years. Filmed with subtle, patient camera work by Nicole’s niece, Lauren, the documentary traces a delicate path toward autonomy and connection. Tender, unsentimental and visually attentive, it explores family dependency, small acts of care and the gentle, hard-won emergence of a woman learning to shape her own life.

Special screening with the movie team and director Lauren Dällenbach.

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Wednesday 28 October, 20:30

Special screening: Alien, le huitième passager

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Ridley Scott’s landmark science-fiction thriller follows the crew of the commercial vessel Nostromo as they respond to a distress call on a deserted planet. When one of them is assaulted by an unknown lifeform, the ship becomes the setting for a claustrophobic, escalating struggle for survival. Combining stark industrial design, tense atmospherics and H.R. Giger’s unforgettable creature imagery, Alien reshaped space horror and continues to influence filmmakers with its relentless sense of dread and formal precision.

In conjunction with the show Toutes les femmes sont des aliens (Oct. 8 – Nov. 14, 2026) and in the presence of Eric Devanthéry, director of Scènes du Grüti and stage director!
In English with French subtitles.

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Wednesday 28 October, 20:00

Preview: Derborence – Le Temps Des Animaux

Independent Cinema

Les Scala

Vincent Chabloz’s first feature is a lyrical wildlife documentary that revisits Derborence through the intimate gaze of its animals. Observing encounters between fauna and occasional human visitors, the film blends tenderness and gentle humour to reveal the valley’s rhythms and fragile balances. Rich in observational detail and poetic imagery, Chabloz’s approach invites quiet wonder while underscoring the urgent need to protect the living world to which we belong.

In French with English subtitles.
In the presence of director Vincent Chabloz.

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