Tuesday 16 June, 20:00

Special Screening: Freedom – Le Destin de Shewit

Booking Required

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.

Rue Saint-Joseph 47,
1227 Carouge

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Friday 12 June, 20:00

Special Screening: Napoli – New York

Independent Cinema

Cinéma Bio

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.

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Sunday 14 June, 10:30

Special Screening: The Crazy Inventions of Mr Bricolo

Independent Cinema Kids

Les Cinémas du Grütli

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.

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30 March – 15 June

White Coats and Silver Screens

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

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.

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September 2025 – June 2026

Ciné-club LES SŒURS LUMIÈRE

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

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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Thursday 18 June, 18:30

Les fleurs du Manguier

Independent Cinema

Cinérama Empire

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.

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Thursday 18 June, 11:00

Ciné-relax X Animatou

Independent Cinema

MEG

Curated with Animatou, this relaxed screening invites audiences into a gentle cinematic space where the lights stay soft and the door remains open. The program showcases short animated works that favour texture, rhythm and intimate gestures, presented with lowered sound to welcome diverse needs. Emphasizing presence and sensory detail over plot, the session foregrounds communal response—laughter, movement, quiet—while offering a calm, attentive frame for discovering films in an accessible, non-judgemental atmosphere.

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Special Screening: Freedom – Le Destin de Shewit