Special Screening: The Passion of Freedom: A Popular History of Greece

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.

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.