Explore classic animated scenes that ask big questions about feelings, choices, and what makes us human. Watch short film excerpts and listen to music and voices as images shift. Draw responses, share ideas in small groups, and try playful experiments that reveal how stories teach us to think. The mentor-and-child story sparks imagination while teaching observation and critical thinking through color, movement, and sound.
Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion.
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.
Orkhan Aghazadeh’s tender documentary follows an elderly projectionist in an isolated Azerbaijani village as he strives to revive the local cinema after years without a screening room. Observational and intimate in approach, the film captures quiet gestures, communal rituals and the projectionist’s relationship to memory, passion and intergenerational transmission. Through patient framing and subtle soundscapes, it becomes a reflection on cultural persistence, the fate of traditional film spaces and the communal power of shared images.
Talysh and Russian with French subtitles. Screening in collaboration with Let’s Doc! (National Documentary Month). Screening followed by a discussion.
Explore a showcase of 84 nominated timepieces and hands-on workshops. Join guided tours with watchmaking experts, listen to ticking mechanisms, and see delicate gears turn. Try beginner watchmaking skills like assembly and bevelling, or join youngsters’ sessions to make a colourful dial, practise engraving, or dismantle and rebuild a clock. Sessions mix sight, sound and fine touch to spark curiosity, creativity and careful observation in young makers.
Kids ages 4–12.
Step into Euphonia, an interactive sound installation inspired by Hector Berlioz’s tale Euphonia ou La Ville musicale. Here you don’t just listen: you blow, build, play, probe and invent together. Along the route you create your own instrument before exploring a vast participatory organ. Sounds circulate, answer each other and meet to form a collective composition. No musical training is required — a playful sonic adventure to share with family.
In French. Kids ages 4 and up.
Follow a farm full of surprises, a zebra that changes its stripes, a big-mouthed frog, and mischievous bats. These animated short films open a playful world of fantasy, humour, and poetry. Children and grown-ups can discover seven inventive women filmmakers and enjoy 50 minutes of colourful storytelling, lively images, and curious characters that spark imagination.
In English. Kids ages 5 and up.
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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