Saturday 21 November, 11:00

Special Screening: Sketches of Myahk

Booking Required

Koichi Onishi’s documentary journeys to Miyakojima, at the far south of Japan’s archipelago, where music, song, and oral tradition preserve the memory of a community shaped by natural disaster, oppression, and the Second World War. Through attentive, lyrical observation, the film follows women shamans as they continue to sing and pray on the island of Utaki, drawing strength from solidarity and mutual support. At once delicate and resonant, it reflects on intergenerational transmission and the fragility of what is passed on.

Blvd de Saint-Georges 8,
1205 Genève

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Photo Credit: DR

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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Wednesday 11 November, 18:00

Freedom – The Fate of Shewit

Independent Cinema

Cinéma Bio

Anne-Frédérique Widmann’s documentary traces the long fight of Shewit Tekie, whose search for safety becomes a portrait of resilience and self-determination. Moving from Eritrea to Libya and then to Switzerland, the film follows her struggle to rebuild her life after exploitation, uncertainty, and the threat of deportation. Filmed over ten years, it blends testimony and intimacy in a restrained, human approach that gives full weight to a powerful story of emancipation.

The screening will be followed by a short discussion with the film’s protagonist, Shewit Tekie; the director, Anne-Frédérique Widmann; and the co-head of the organization AMIC, Melete Solomon.

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Wednesday 11 November, 18:30

Special Screening: Blade Runner

Independent Cinema

Bureau culturel

Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner plunges into a rain-drenched, neon metropolis where bounty hunter Rick Deckard tracks synthetic replicants. The film’s measured pacing and lingering frames foreground questions of identity, memory and empathy, probing what separates human from artificial life. Dense, noir-inflected visuals and a melancholic atmosphere give the story an elegiac tone, balancing tense encounters with reflective solitude. Its interrogation of consciousness and longing lingers long after the credits.

Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion. In French.

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Wednesday 11 November, 14:45

UNIGE x Terre des Hommes: Le petit prince

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Mark Osborne’s animated adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s tale follows a little girl living in a world governed by success, who meets an old aviator and through his story rediscovers imagination. Mixing digital animation and stop‑motion techniques, the film offers a layered visual poetry that preserves the book’s themes—childhood, curiosity and the need to see beyond appearances—while questioning the place of wonder in a rational, achievement‑driven society. Intimate and visually inventive, it speaks to both children and adults.

In English with French subtitles. Part of the Cinémas du Grütli’s screenings for young audiences, in collaboration with Terre des Hommes.

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Thursday 12 November, 12:15

Special Screening : The Tradwives of America

Independent Cinema

Maison de la Paix

Julie Benzoni, Manon Heurtel and Jérôme Prouvost’s documentary The Tradwives of America examines the recent rise of the #Tradwife movement through intimate portraits and testimony. Focusing on Solie and Andre, a practising Catholic couple, and Enitza, a former tradwife who left after ten years and four children, the film probes how online conservatism shapes domestic ideals and challenges women’s autonomy. Concise and observational (25 min), it navigates ideology, family intimacy and the emotional costs of prescribed gender roles.

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Thursday 12 November, 20:30

Perfect Days

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Perfect Days is Wim Wenders’ contemplative portrait of a man whose quiet rituals reveal the poetry of ordinary life. Through spare, attentive mise-en-scène, the film follows Hirayama as small gestures, music and chance encounters gradually open a larger emotional landscape. Wenders composes a film about attention, human connection and a gentle form of resistance to the accelerating modern world, privileging silence, detail and the slow accumulation of meaning.

Japanese with French subtitles.

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Special Screening: Sketches of Myahk