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Festival des 5 Continents presents a curated panorama of world cinema: competitive and out-of-competition films, special screenings and a section for emerging voices. The programme highlights auteur cinema, daring narratives and diverse perspectives, favouring bold visual styles and intimate storytelling. Through screenings, talks and encounters, the festival offers a space to discover new talents and reassess cinematic traditions, celebrating cross-cultural dialogues and the emotional power of film.
Caramelo y Limón Festival celebrates ten years of Hispanic cinema, bringing together films, conversations and shared thrills on the big screen. Open to everyone, the programme features feature films and short films in their original languages with French subtitles, plus exhibitions and special screenings. Audiences can meet filmmakers, attend talks and discover diverse stories from Spanish-speaking cultures. Families and cinephiles are invited to connect through film and community.
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov, Soy Cuba traces multiple stories of Cuban society before the revolution, exploring living conditions, aspirations and contradictions in a country on the brink of political transformation. Produced as a Soviet–Cuban collaboration, the film is famed for its formal audacity: virtuosic camera movements, bold visual compositions and spectacular staging. Long rediscovered after its release, it is now regarded as a landmark in cinema history, an intense, sensory portrait that marries lyricism and political urgency.
In Spanish with French subtitles. Screening in collaboration with Filmar. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Cecilia Cardoso, a member of the festival team.
Join a relaxed community conversation inviting students, staff and faculty to reflect together on what respect means at the Graduate Institute. Guided by voices and quotes gathered during the Respect Campaign, participants will explore shared themes, tensions and everyday contradictions in classrooms, group work and daily life. This informal Brown Bag Lunch welcomes everyone to listen, share experiences, and contribute to a collective reflection. Light food and drinks will be provided.
This lecture, given by Jean-François Bayart and Adrian Gasser, examines whether the category of “religion” is a relevant analytical framework for understanding East Asian societies, with a focus on Korea, Japan, and the Chinese world. It explores how religious practices, beliefs, and social structures challenge conventional definitions of religion in the region.
In French.
Ronnie C. Chan, Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist and Honorary Chair of Hang Lung Properties, draws on decades of international engagement. He examines how China and Europe might shape a relationship that contributes to cooperative solutions rather than new fractures in an era of strained global order. The lecture explores political, economic and diplomatic dimensions and considers pathways for mutual engagement. The session will be introduced by Marie-Laure Salles and moderated by Achim Wennmann.
In English.
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Unfamiliar, Luminous, Remote marks Amit Berman’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, following an artist residency in Switzerland earlier this year. Bringing together a new body of paintings, the exhibition explores intimacy, memory and vulnerability through expressive gestures, visible layers of paint and atmospheric compositions. Moving between quiet domestic interiors, fragments of landscape and solitary figures, Berman’s works reflect on the fragile space between familiarity and estrangement, connection and withdrawal.
Created against a backdrop of war and emotional precarity, these intimate yet unsettled paintings reveal a persistent search for connection and belonging within an unstable reality.
Opening: Thursday 17 September, 18:00
Talk: Sunday 20 September, 14:30-15:30 with curator Danniel Tostes and Amit Berman.
An intergenerational exhibition presenting the work of Jannis Kounellis and Julian Charrière, focusing on a material-based conceptual practice that spans over fifty years. The display brings installations and sculptural works into dialogue, foregrounding elemental media such as coal, combustion, metal and petroleum used as supports and vectors of history, political reflection, energy and symbolic charge. The juxtaposition highlights shared concerns about matter, industry and the traces of human intervention.
Preview (Geneva Art Week) in presence of Julian Charrière: Wednesday 16 September, 17:00.
Opening (Nuit des Bains): Thursday 17 September, 18:00.
Renowned for dissolving the boundaries between artist and audience, his work celebrated collaboration, transformation, and human connection through ever-changing, interactive creations. Blending political engagement with poetic imagination, Medalla explored themes of identity, migration, ecology, memory, and collective experience, leaving a lasting influence on contemporary art. This exhibition offers an opportunity to discover the work of one of the most visionary and experimental artists of the twentieth century, whose playful yet profound practice continues to inspire new generations of artists and audiences alike.
John M Armleder presents an interchange-based exhibition that foregrounds objects drawn from students’ suitcases. Through object-based works and subtle interventions, the show probes modes of observation, intimacy and collective memory. Personal belongings are rearranged as visual prompts that evoke histories, pedagogy and everyday cinematics. The artist’s restrained interventions invite reflection on how small domestic items circulate meanings and facilitate encounters, revealing how private narratives surface within a communal field of attention.
An intimate retrospective devoted to director Patricia Plattner, presenting a selection of her films alongside a reading-performance and a small exhibition. Plattner’s cinema favors close human encounters and observational compositions, blending subtle humour with poignant emotional truth. The programme highlights her attentive direction and narrative economy, tracing recurring themes of identity, everyday intimacy and the passage of time. Screenings offer a chance to rediscover the quiet intensity and warm, lyrical realism of her work. An event presented by the association Le Bazar de la Sirène in collaboration with Luna Films and the City of Carouge.
On the program:
– Special screenings at Cinéma Bio
– An inaugural staged reading on September 5, at the Théâtre des Amis
– An exhibition, Le Petit Bazar de Patricia, at Place du Temple
Presented by the City of Lancy, this municipal exhibition examines the Voie verte as an emblem of soft mobility. A sequence of informational panels traces the route’s evolution, combining historical context, planning perspectives and reflections on everyday use. The display uses concise visual and textual elements to reveal how infrastructural changes shape mobility, landscape and social practices, inviting consideration of sustainability, accessibility and the ongoing dialogues between urban design and community life.
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