Thursday 17 September, 20:30

The Death of Mario Ricci

Booking Required

Claude Goretta’s restrained, humanist drama follows a journalist who encounters Mario Ricci, a factory worker in an industrial Swiss region. Their meeting quietly exposes tensions between the media, the world of work, and everyday realities. Co-written with Georges Haldas, the film uses a documentary-inflected gaze and measured rhythms to examine representation, social change, and moral solitude. Sparse narration and attentive observation create an intimate, textured atmosphere where ordinary lives and ethical questions unfold.

Rue du Général-DUFOUR 16,
1204 Genève

Photo Credit: Ciné-Club Universitaire de Genève

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Photo Credit: Ciné-Club Universitaire de Genève

Thursday 27 August, 20:00

Festival de la Bâtie – Sirāt

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Óliver Laxe’s Sirāt is a hypnotic cinematic journey propelled by electronic pulses and a magnetic soundtrack by Kangding Ray. The film follows a collective adventure where music becomes an agent of attraction, moving between communal euphoria and moments of existential vertigo. Shot with immersive sound design and a patient, sensory camera, it explores desire, identity and the communal power of rhythm. Intense and meditative, Sirāt blends documentary textures and lyrical abstraction to map emotional intensities without conventional narrative anchors.

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1 July – 1 September

Les Étoiles

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Spanning a century of cinema, this retrospective traces the evolving face of stardom from silent-era pioneers to contemporary icons. Through nine thematic chapters and a curated selection of one hundred films, it examines the star system, shifting modernities, emerging representations of desire and identity, and the rise of anti-heroes. Shot and assembled for a keen focus on the human visage, the program foregrounds cinematic techniques that reinvent how films capture presence and persona.

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Wednesday 2 September, 20:00

Special Screening: Laundry

Independent Cinema

Cinéma Bio

Zamo Mkhwanazi’s powerful drama follows a young man who fights to protect his family, his dignity and his dream of freedom against the brutal backdrop of apartheid. Shot with intimate, unflinching cinematography and a measured, humanist gaze, the film blends raw realism with moments of tenderness. It explores courage, resistance and the moral costs of survival, portraying how hope and personal dignity can become sources of strength even in the darkest circumstances.

In presence of director Zamo Mkhwanazi

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Wednesday 3 September, 21:00

Outdoor Screening: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Independent Cinema

Place des Volontaires

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s haunting film follows Uncle Boonmee as supernatural visitations and tender memories lead him to confront mortality. Shot with languid long takes, luminous natural light and a patient, dreamlike rhythm, the film blends everyday intimacy with mythic strangeness. Palme d’Or winner at Cannes, it explores reincarnation, familial bonds and the porous boundary between life and death with quiet compassion, inviting reflection rather than offering answers.

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Thursday 3 September, 19:45

Special Screening: Becaària

Independent Cinema

Les Scala

Erik Bernasconi’s 1977-set coming‑of‑age drama follows Mario, a sixteen‑year‑old sent for the summer to a high‑altitude farm. Shot in naturalistic, panoramic images, the film captures the wild, muscular rhythm of the mountains and the tentative intensity of a first love. Between awkwardness at school and fraught ties with his father, Mario learns through landscape and encounter, in a delicate balance of silence and heat. A subtle, sensory portrait of youth and belonging.

In presence of director Erik Bernasconi.

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3 September – 10 October

Double Extraction de Nibards

Independent Cinema

Halle Nord

Ciel Sourdeau’s eight-minute, seventeen-second video unfolds as a subversive tutorial: part gore, part experimental film, it repurposes pedagogical forms into an improvised, transgressive bricolage. Mixed by Adrien Kessler, the piece layers tactile sound and rough-edged visuals to probe bodies, identity and the limits of instruction. Its stripped, confrontational aesthetic alternates shock and dark humour, inviting a re-examination of learning rituals and the politics of representation through intimate, unsettling imagery.

Opening: 3 September, 18:00

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