Wednesday 2 June, 18:30

Water for Life: The Fight of Berta Cáceres

Free, Booking Required

Water for Life presents a documentary portrait of Berta Cáceres, tracing her commitment to defending rivers and indigenous rights. The film blends observational footage, intimate interviews and archival material to build a meditative, urgent testimony. It frames Cáceres’s leadership and the stakes of environmental struggle without sensationalism, exploring themes of resistance, community and loss. Presented with a subsequent discussion, the screening invites reflection on transnational solidarity and the cinematic language of political documentary.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with:
Roxanna Altholz — Professor at Berkeley Law and Director of its Human Rights Clinic, co-author of the GIEI Honduras final report on the assassination of Berta Cáceres
Camilo Bermúdez — Head of Legal Litigation at COPINH, the organization founded by Berta Cáceres
Will Parrinello — Director of the film

Rue du Général-DUFOUR 16,
1204 Genève

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Tuesday 2 June, 20:00

Special Screening: Life According to The 5 Dollar Guy

Independent Cinema

Cinéma Bio

Gary Grenier’s intimate documentary follows Eddie Spaghetti, known as the 5 Dollar Guy, who has lived on the streets of Silver Lake for 27 years. Through close-up encounters and observational vignettes, Grenier captures his humor, resourcefulness and quiet dignity — a life of performance, recycling and community that challenges stereotypes. The film offers a poignant portrait of resilience and identity, revealing a paradoxical America seen through one man’s subtle, humane perspective.

Screening in presence of the director Gary Grenier.

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Tuesday 2 June, 20:00

Special Screening: COSMOS (2024)

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Director Germinal Roaux offers a meditative and lyrical portrait set in a forgotten Yucatán village, where Lena, a 68-year-old widow weakened by illness, meets Leon, a 62-year-old Maya guardian of nature and its spirits. Their unlikely companionship unfolds through quiet, sensory frames that favor textures of landscape and ritual over exposition. The film is a philosophical fable about ageing, the silent transformations of the body and heart, and the fragile, enduring ties that bind humans to one another and to the natural world.

Avant-première with the director Germinal Roaux.

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Friday 5 June, 11:45

Special Screening: Pollock

Independent Cinema

Ciné 17

Ed Harris directs and stars in Pollock, a contemplative biopic that traces the turbulent life and creative obsession of painter Jackson Pollock. The film blends raw, physical performances with painterly cinematography to evoke the intensity of abstract expressionism. Through intimate close-ups and textured visuals, it examines artistic genius, addiction and the fraught relationship between creation and self-destruction. Harris’s restrained direction foregrounds mood and process, offering a cinematic meditation on making and the cost of brilliance.

Screening presented by Carmen Campo Real

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5 – 7 June

CineGlobe 2026

Independent Cinema

CERN

CineGlobe, founded in 2007, curates a lively dialogue between art and science, and in its 15th edition explores energy, ecological, technological and generational transitions. Across screenings, immersive projects and hands-on workshops the programme traces moments of state change—gradual and abrupt—where one balance dissolves and another emerges. With a programme ranging from science documentaries to VR and animation (opening film Arco, Oscar‑nominated and Annecy Cristal winner), the festival favors sensory experiments, optical play and a quietly probing, inventive cinematic intelligence.

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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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Tuesday 9 June, 20:00

Special Screening : Seuls les rebelles

Independent Cinema

Les Cinémas du Grütli

Danielle Arbid’s Seuls les rebelles observes an unexpected love in a Beirut on the brink. Her intimate, observational approach frames Suzanne, a sixty-something Lebanese widow of Palestinian origin, and Osmane, a young Sudanese undocumented migrant, as their fragile bond ignites amid social collapse. The film probes migration, age, identity and solidarity through textured close-ups, saturated color passages and a patient rhythm. Presented at the Berlin Festival 2026, it balances political urgency with moments of tenderness, resisting dehumanization while honoring human agency.

In the presence of director Danielle Arbid.

Arabic with French subtitles.

This event is organized in partnership with the Geneva-based association CHANCE International, which actively supports the treatment of children with cancer, primarily in Lebanon, as well as targeted research projects, particularly on the genetic causes of cancer. Every donation gives a child with cancer a chance of recovery.

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Water for Life: The Fight of Berta Cáceres