Preview: Hope — Na Hong-Jin

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.

Cinéopéras gathers four film evenings curated by artists from the season, each screening chosen in dialogue with the selector’s artistic universe. Curators Kyle Abraham, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Marie-Ève Signeyrole and Philippe Jaroussky present works that trace convergences between music, theatre, choreography and cinematic form. The programme favors striking visual textures, intimate soundscapes and performances that blur stage and screen, inviting a reflective, sensory encounter with film as a living, interpretive art.

Věra Chytilová’s two-screening offers a glimpse into a pioneering voice of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Her films juxtapose sharp social observation with inventive, often playful formal experiments, disrupting narrative expectations. Through striking images and rhythms, they probe gender, power and the absurdities of everyday life, balancing dark humour with moral urgency. The program highlights Chytilová’s singular visual energy and critical gaze, inviting reflection on cinema’s capacity to question society and form.

In Czech with French subtitles. Screening will be followed by a discussion with the documentary filmmaker Stéphanie Barbey and moderated by Charlotte Ducos.