Emmanuel Marre’s award-winning drama unfolds in September 1940 as a disoriented engineer seeks purpose within the new Vichy administration. Quietly efficient and unsettling, the film traces Henri Marre’s efforts to impose technical order on a crumbling nation while exposing personal compromises and moral drift. Shot with austere period detail and a restrained gaze, Notre Salut probes ambition, identity and the uneasy mechanics of patriotism.
In French.
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
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
Festival des 5 Continents presents a curated panorama of world cinema: competitive and out-of-competition films, special screenings and a section for emerging voices. The programme highlights auteur cinema, daring narratives and diverse perspectives, favouring bold visual styles and intimate storytelling. Through screenings, talks and encounters, the festival offers a space to discover new talents and reassess cinematic traditions, celebrating cross-cultural dialogues and the emotional power of film.
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov, Soy Cuba traces multiple stories of Cuban society before the revolution, exploring living conditions, aspirations and contradictions in a country on the brink of political transformation. Produced as a Soviet–Cuban collaboration, the film is famed for its formal audacity: virtuosic camera movements, bold visual compositions and spectacular staging. Long rediscovered after its release, it is now regarded as a landmark in cinema history, an intense, sensory portrait that marries lyricism and political urgency.
In Spanish with French subtitles. Screening in collaboration with Filmar. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Cecilia Cardoso, a member of the festival team.
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.
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Nobody Knows follows four children left to fend for themselves in a Tokyo apartment, led by an eldest sibling who struggles to hold the fragile family together. Shot with quiet observation and intimate attention to everyday gestures, the film builds a delicate portrait of childhood, solitude and hidden precarity. Kore-eda’s restrained direction reveals the complexity of familial bonds and the small acts of freedom children invent to endure and survive.
Japanese with French subtitles.
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