Filmer, c’est exister is a Geneva-based film festival dedicated to Palestinian cinema, using film as a space of expression, resistance and visibility. Showcasing documentaries and fiction by Palestinian filmmakers and allies, the festival highlights lived realities, personal narratives and political contexts that are often absent from mainstream screens, affirming cinema as a vital act of existence and testimony.
Co-authors Frédéric Wilner and Moataz Madi helm a probing documentary that follows the University of Geneva’s archaeological mission at Saqqâra. Their camera traces the unearthing of a tomb attributed to the vizier Ouni, raising questions about its ownership and purpose. The film blends measured investigative pacing with textured imagery of dust, stone and inscription, exploring themes of memory, legacy and the politics of archaeological narrative. Intimate interviews and revelatory finds create a contemplative, suspenseful atmosphere that foregrounds the human stories behind ancient monuments.
In French.
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.
Curated as a cycle of five short works by Pauline Curnier Jardin, Maria Klonaris and Katherina Thomadaki, Laure Prouvost, Mathilde Rosier and Josèfa Ntjam, Anti-Nymphs stages feminist rereadings of Greco‑Roman myths. These video essays and experimental shorts foreground body metamorphosis—gender, age and vegetal transformations—centering non‑conforming female bodies that unsettle dominant imaginaries. Textural imagery, fragmentary rhythms and tactile close-ups create a liminal, often uncanny atmosphere. The program proposes a subversive mythography that remaps ancient figures through contemporary, bodily poetics.
Since 2003, FIFDH has combined cinema with the promotion of human rights, presenting socially conscious films alongside debates and discussions that engage activists, journalists, artists, diplomats, and the public. Held across multiple venues in Geneva, including the UN, theaters, museums, and hospitals, the festival showcases feature films and documentaries that highlight human rights struggles worldwide, encouraging dialogue, reflection, and action. FIFDH has welcomed Nobel laureates, renowned filmmakers, and leading voices in activism, making it a unique platform where art and advocacy intersect.
A screening of the documentary The Librarians, which exposes the large-scale removal of books and the culture war unfolding in the United States, followed by a hard-hitting debate on America’s authoritarian drift. From the erosion of civil liberties to the undermining of democratic institutions and the global export of these practices, experts and activists examine how recent U.S. policies are reshaping power at home and beyond.
Discussions are interpreted in English and French; the film is in English and German, with French and English subtitles.
Shaped by Soraya’s mobile-phone recordings, this intimate documentary follows a sixteen-year-old Afghan artist over five years as she attempts to flee Iran to join her mother in Austria. Blending handheld video, animation, drawings and sculpture, the film maps a journey of escape, song and improvised dance. It examines courage, gendered violence and the creative impulse as survival, rendered in raw textures and lyrical fragments. The result is a porous, sensory portrait of resistance and artistic self-creation.
In Persian/Dari/Turkish (original version), with French subtitles.
Screening followed by a discussion with filmmakers Mehrdad Oskouei & Soraya Akhlaghi.
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