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Andrea Sherpa‑Zimmermann, mountaineer, endurance athlete, international sports lawyer and humanitarian entrepreneur, shares her personal and professional journey. She discusses her ascent of Mount Everest and her humanitarian engagement in Nepal through Wild Yak Expeditions and the Butterfly Help Project. The lecture examines the intersection of high‑altitude exploration, legal practice in sport, and grassroots development, revealing strategic lessons for leading sustainable projects and fostering community resilience.
In French.
Nicolas Roeg’s first feature follows a brother and sister stranded in the Australian desert who must learn to survive after encountering a young Aboriginal man on a walkabout. A major work of 1970s British and Australian cinema, the film contrasts Western and Aboriginal worldviews while offering a striking visual meditation on landscape, survival and dislocation. Roeg’s elliptical editing and luminous cinematography make the narrative an atmospheric, sometimes haunting study of cultural encounter and loss.
In English with French subtitles.
Coordinated by Stan Breynaert, this evening presents two PrePro projects by student artists CHIARA and GABRIEL, showcasing distinct musical worlds and personal approaches to composition and performance. The programme foregrounds experimentation and close artistic exchange, with the performers sharing emerging work while receiving attentive feedback from external experts. Staging favors immediacy and listening, alternating intimate moments and expansive soundscapes to create a reflective, exploratory atmosphere that reveals the creative processes of tomorrow’s musicians.
Animatou is the leading animation film festival in French-speaking Switzerland, dedicated to showcasing the best of contemporary animated cinema and championing bold, author-driven works that rarely find space in traditional theatres. Both locally rooted and internationally recognised, the festival brings together generations, cultures and sensibilities through a rich programme of competitive short films, special screenings, feature films, retrospectives, workshops and masterclasses. With a strong commitment to education and year-round activities for schools and the wider public, Animatou has become a key platform for animation in Geneva and beyond.
Filmmakers Agnès Patron and Pierre‑Luc Granjon bring award-winning experience in contemporary animation: Patron (L’Heure de l’Ours; César 2021; Grand Prix Animatou 2019) and Granjon (Cristal d’Annecy 2025; Prix Florimont).
This paired conversation examines their artistic approaches, from Patron’s narrative-driven short films to Granjon’s volumetric and paper-cut animation. They discuss creative process, material techniques, and narrative strategies, revealing how craft choices shape meaning and audience engagement, and offering perspectives on sustaining a creative practice in contemporary animation.
In French.
Lars von Trier’s radical early film, the second work emerging from the Dogme95 movement, stages a provocative experiment that blurs performance and life. Shot with a stripped-down aesthetic and handheld immediacy, it follows a group who deliberately act ‘idiotic’ to unsettle social norms. The film interrogates marginalization, spectatorship and ethical boundaries, trading polished craft for raw intensity. Its explicit scenes and confrontational tone challenge viewers while offering a stark meditation on freedom and shame. ! Warning !: This film contains explicit scenes that may offend the audience’s sensibilities. 18+
In Danish with French subtitles.
Three improvisers and composers — Maël Godinat (piano), William Jacquemet (trombone) and Pierre‑François Massy (double bass) — present a program of original material and carefully chosen covers. Arrangements emphasize close harmonies, intimate interplay and attentive listening, letting sparse textures open into rich, resonant chords. The trio’s sound balances lyrical phrasing with rhythmic subtlety; lighting and silence shape moments of suspended time, inviting a contemplative, warm atmosphere that reimagines harmonic conversation in the moment.
Andrea Sherpa‑Zimmermann, mountaineer, endurance athlete, international sports lawyer and humanitarian entrepreneur, shares her personal and professional journey. She discusses her ascent of Mount Everest and her humanitarian engagement in Nepal through Wild Yak Expeditions and the Butterfly Help Project. The lecture examines the intersection of high‑altitude exploration, legal practice in sport, and grassroots development, revealing strategic lessons for leading sustainable projects and fostering community resilience.
In French.
Nicolas Roeg’s first feature follows a brother and sister stranded in the Australian desert who must learn to survive after encountering a young Aboriginal man on a walkabout. A major work of 1970s British and Australian cinema, the film contrasts Western and Aboriginal worldviews while offering a striking visual meditation on landscape, survival and dislocation. Roeg’s elliptical editing and luminous cinematography make the narrative an atmospheric, sometimes haunting study of cultural encounter and loss.
In English with French subtitles.
Coordinated by Stan Breynaert, this evening presents two PrePro projects by student artists CHIARA and GABRIEL, showcasing distinct musical worlds and personal approaches to composition and performance. The programme foregrounds experimentation and close artistic exchange, with the performers sharing emerging work while receiving attentive feedback from external experts. Staging favors immediacy and listening, alternating intimate moments and expansive soundscapes to create a reflective, exploratory atmosphere that reveals the creative processes of tomorrow’s musicians.
Animatou is the leading animation film festival in French-speaking Switzerland, dedicated to showcasing the best of contemporary animated cinema and championing bold, author-driven works that rarely find space in traditional theatres. Both locally rooted and internationally recognised, the festival brings together generations, cultures and sensibilities through a rich programme of competitive short films, special screenings, feature films, retrospectives, workshops and masterclasses. With a strong commitment to education and year-round activities for schools and the wider public, Animatou has become a key platform for animation in Geneva and beyond.
Filmmakers Agnès Patron and Pierre‑Luc Granjon bring award-winning experience in contemporary animation: Patron (L’Heure de l’Ours; César 2021; Grand Prix Animatou 2019) and Granjon (Cristal d’Annecy 2025; Prix Florimont).
This paired conversation examines their artistic approaches, from Patron’s narrative-driven short films to Granjon’s volumetric and paper-cut animation. They discuss creative process, material techniques, and narrative strategies, revealing how craft choices shape meaning and audience engagement, and offering perspectives on sustaining a creative practice in contemporary animation.
In French.
Lars von Trier’s radical early film, the second work emerging from the Dogme95 movement, stages a provocative experiment that blurs performance and life. Shot with a stripped-down aesthetic and handheld immediacy, it follows a group who deliberately act ‘idiotic’ to unsettle social norms. The film interrogates marginalization, spectatorship and ethical boundaries, trading polished craft for raw intensity. Its explicit scenes and confrontational tone challenge viewers while offering a stark meditation on freedom and shame. ! Warning !: This film contains explicit scenes that may offend the audience’s sensibilities. 18+
In Danish with French subtitles.
Three improvisers and composers — Maël Godinat (piano), William Jacquemet (trombone) and Pierre‑François Massy (double bass) — present a program of original material and carefully chosen covers. Arrangements emphasize close harmonies, intimate interplay and attentive listening, letting sparse textures open into rich, resonant chords. The trio’s sound balances lyrical phrasing with rhythmic subtlety; lighting and silence shape moments of suspended time, inviting a contemplative, warm atmosphere that reimagines harmonic conversation in the moment.
Andrea Sherpa‑Zimmermann, mountaineer, endurance athlete, international sports lawyer and humanitarian entrepreneur, shares her personal and professional journey. She discusses her ascent of Mount Everest and her humanitarian engagement in Nepal through Wild Yak Expeditions and the Butterfly Help Project. The lecture examines the intersection of high‑altitude exploration, legal practice in sport, and grassroots development, revealing strategic lessons for leading sustainable projects and fostering community resilience.
In French.
Nicolas Roeg’s first feature follows a brother and sister stranded in the Australian desert who must learn to survive after encountering a young Aboriginal man on a walkabout. A major work of 1970s British and Australian cinema, the film contrasts Western and Aboriginal worldviews while offering a striking visual meditation on landscape, survival and dislocation. Roeg’s elliptical editing and luminous cinematography make the narrative an atmospheric, sometimes haunting study of cultural encounter and loss.
In English with French subtitles.
Coordinated by Stan Breynaert, this evening presents two PrePro projects by student artists CHIARA and GABRIEL, showcasing distinct musical worlds and personal approaches to composition and performance. The programme foregrounds experimentation and close artistic exchange, with the performers sharing emerging work while receiving attentive feedback from external experts. Staging favors immediacy and listening, alternating intimate moments and expansive soundscapes to create a reflective, exploratory atmosphere that reveals the creative processes of tomorrow’s musicians.
Animatou is the leading animation film festival in French-speaking Switzerland, dedicated to showcasing the best of contemporary animated cinema and championing bold, author-driven works that rarely find space in traditional theatres. Both locally rooted and internationally recognised, the festival brings together generations, cultures and sensibilities through a rich programme of competitive short films, special screenings, feature films, retrospectives, workshops and masterclasses. With a strong commitment to education and year-round activities for schools and the wider public, Animatou has become a key platform for animation in Geneva and beyond.
Filmmakers Agnès Patron and Pierre‑Luc Granjon bring award-winning experience in contemporary animation: Patron (L’Heure de l’Ours; César 2021; Grand Prix Animatou 2019) and Granjon (Cristal d’Annecy 2025; Prix Florimont).
This paired conversation examines their artistic approaches, from Patron’s narrative-driven short films to Granjon’s volumetric and paper-cut animation. They discuss creative process, material techniques, and narrative strategies, revealing how craft choices shape meaning and audience engagement, and offering perspectives on sustaining a creative practice in contemporary animation.
In French.
Lars von Trier’s radical early film, the second work emerging from the Dogme95 movement, stages a provocative experiment that blurs performance and life. Shot with a stripped-down aesthetic and handheld immediacy, it follows a group who deliberately act ‘idiotic’ to unsettle social norms. The film interrogates marginalization, spectatorship and ethical boundaries, trading polished craft for raw intensity. Its explicit scenes and confrontational tone challenge viewers while offering a stark meditation on freedom and shame. ! Warning !: This film contains explicit scenes that may offend the audience’s sensibilities. 18+
In Danish with French subtitles.
Based on sketches by Devos, Ribes, Sylvie Joly, Palmade and Martinez, this theatrical revue sketches the comic microcosm of apartment life. Short scenes expose domestic tensions — marital rows, overwhelmed parents, an unpredictable grandmother and holiday disasters — with sharp observational wit and precise farcical timing. The ensemble slips into vivid characters, combining spoken comedy and physical nuance to reveal tenderness beneath the chaos, offering a warm, incisive portrait of neighbours and family.
In French.
Jaune is a fresh stage piece created and performed by recent graduates Mathis Josselin and Gabrielle Pialoux. This first collaboration explores the many faces of the colour yellow — joy, friendship, tenderness, desire and its more ambivalent edges — with an intimate, playful and sincere theatrical language. The creators blend minimal staging and tactile gestures to produce a concise, evocative hour of shared emotion and quiet humour.
In French. Created for the Fête du théâtre 2026.
Wander through buzzing stalls to discover colorful paintings, sculptures, photos and handmade treasures. Hear live music, watch performances, and follow the rhythm of the crowd. Join hands-on creative activities made for families: paint, craft or try simple art experiments. Browse a vinyl trade corner to hunt for records, smell warm food, and feel different textures under your fingers. This small urban museum vibe invites curiosity and playful exploration.
In French.
Tiwayo returns with Outsider, an intimate yet expansive soul album produced by Adrián Quesada. Fronting his full band, the Parisian singer-songwriter—nicknamed “The Young Old” for his timeless voice—moves between southern soul, blues and travel-worn melodies. Collaborations with Doyle Bramhall II and Kendra Morris add depth to arrangements that favour raw, authentic expression. On stage, the band blends warm grooves, gritty guitar and emotive vocals to create a direct, soul-centred experience.
Je ne suis pas Johnny is a theatrical exploration of identity, memory and the weight of cultural myth. Combining intimate staging, physical sensitivity and moments of dark humour, the piece unsettles familiar narratives and invites audiences to reconsider how personas are constructed and performed. Sparse lighting and a fluid rhythm shape an intense, close-up experience, where silence and gesture reveal hidden tensions and unexpected tenderness.
Discover a remarkable puppetry collection that reveals nearly a century of creative practice and craftsmanship. More than 1,400 objects — from traditional figures to contemporary pieces — illustrate evolving techniques, materials and aesthetics. The visit explores historical development, artistic processes and the social and cultural roles of puppetry, offering interpretive insights into conservation and exhibition approaches for diverse audiences.
In French.
Step into a playful weather workshop where children help wake the weather and dress the day. Through lively objects, gentle surprises and playful mishaps, the sun, clouds and rain take on mischievous personalities. The piece blends humor and tenderness, inviting sensory exploration, imagination and close observation. Short, poetic scenes spark wonder for little ones and offer knowing smiles for grown-ups.
In French. Kids ages 3 and up.
Three improvisers and composers — Maël Godinat (piano), William Jacquemet (trombone) and Pierre‑François Massy (double bass) — present a program of original material and carefully chosen covers. Arrangements emphasize close harmonies, intimate interplay and attentive listening, letting sparse textures open into rich, resonant chords. The trio’s sound balances lyrical phrasing with rhythmic subtlety; lighting and silence shape moments of suspended time, inviting a contemplative, warm atmosphere that reimagines harmonic conversation in the moment.
Andrea Sherpa‑Zimmermann, mountaineer, endurance athlete, international sports lawyer and humanitarian entrepreneur, shares her personal and professional journey. She discusses her ascent of Mount Everest and her humanitarian engagement in Nepal through Wild Yak Expeditions and the Butterfly Help Project. The lecture examines the intersection of high‑altitude exploration, legal practice in sport, and grassroots development, revealing strategic lessons for leading sustainable projects and fostering community resilience.
In French.
Nicolas Roeg’s first feature follows a brother and sister stranded in the Australian desert who must learn to survive after encountering a young Aboriginal man on a walkabout. A major work of 1970s British and Australian cinema, the film contrasts Western and Aboriginal worldviews while offering a striking visual meditation on landscape, survival and dislocation. Roeg’s elliptical editing and luminous cinematography make the narrative an atmospheric, sometimes haunting study of cultural encounter and loss.
In English with French subtitles.
Coordinated by Stan Breynaert, this evening presents two PrePro projects by student artists CHIARA and GABRIEL, showcasing distinct musical worlds and personal approaches to composition and performance. The programme foregrounds experimentation and close artistic exchange, with the performers sharing emerging work while receiving attentive feedback from external experts. Staging favors immediacy and listening, alternating intimate moments and expansive soundscapes to create a reflective, exploratory atmosphere that reveals the creative processes of tomorrow’s musicians.
Animatou is the leading animation film festival in French-speaking Switzerland, dedicated to showcasing the best of contemporary animated cinema and championing bold, author-driven works that rarely find space in traditional theatres. Both locally rooted and internationally recognised, the festival brings together generations, cultures and sensibilities through a rich programme of competitive short films, special screenings, feature films, retrospectives, workshops and masterclasses. With a strong commitment to education and year-round activities for schools and the wider public, Animatou has become a key platform for animation in Geneva and beyond.
Filmmakers Agnès Patron and Pierre‑Luc Granjon bring award-winning experience in contemporary animation: Patron (L’Heure de l’Ours; César 2021; Grand Prix Animatou 2019) and Granjon (Cristal d’Annecy 2025; Prix Florimont).
This paired conversation examines their artistic approaches, from Patron’s narrative-driven short films to Granjon’s volumetric and paper-cut animation. They discuss creative process, material techniques, and narrative strategies, revealing how craft choices shape meaning and audience engagement, and offering perspectives on sustaining a creative practice in contemporary animation.
In French.
Lars von Trier’s radical early film, the second work emerging from the Dogme95 movement, stages a provocative experiment that blurs performance and life. Shot with a stripped-down aesthetic and handheld immediacy, it follows a group who deliberately act ‘idiotic’ to unsettle social norms. The film interrogates marginalization, spectatorship and ethical boundaries, trading polished craft for raw intensity. Its explicit scenes and confrontational tone challenge viewers while offering a stark meditation on freedom and shame. ! Warning !: This film contains explicit scenes that may offend the audience’s sensibilities. 18+
In Danish with French subtitles.
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