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Sergei Parajanov’s seminal avant-garde film reimagines the biopic of Armenian poet Sayat‑Nova as a sequence of poetic tableaux. Prioritizing image, symbol and ritual over conventional narrative, the film stages a meditative exploration of art, spirituality and cultural memory. Lush compositions, theatrical performances and rhythmic montage create a sensorial, dreamlike experience that foregrounds heritage and identity. The Color of Pomegranates remains a visually radical testament to cinematic poetry and the transformative power of metaphor.
In Armenian with French subtitles.
Amélie Patry presents a body of ceramic work rooted in the landscapes of the Loire Valley. Through long walks she collects soils, stones and vegetal matter which she incorporates directly into her vessels. Her process—digging, carrying and shaping—follows a slow attentiveness to material transformation. Fired in the kiln, these gathered elements yield irregular surfaces and textured skins that suggest mineral reliefs and fossil fragments, connecting body, landscape and layered temporalities.
Giulio Regeni, Tutto il male del mondo reconstructs the judicial truth behind the abduction, torture and murder of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni near Cairo in February 2016. This investigative documentary pieces together legal findings, testimony and archival material to trace the case’s painstaking unraveling, offering a sober, forensic cinematic approach. The film’s tone is restrained yet urgent, foregrounding human loss and the pursuit of justice. Original Italian audio with English subtitles.
Special screening in partnership with Amnesty International and in collaboration with the Geneva section of the Partito Democratico and ANPI – Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d’Italia.
Facilitated by coaches from Big Bloom, this collaborative hackathon gathers leaders, managers, employees and students to tackle workplace burnout through collective problem-solving.
Participants investigate causes like mental overload and performance culture, ideate and prototype practical interventions to detect early signs and redesign workloads and rhythms. The session emphasizes actionable strategies for organizations to preserve team energy and implement tested, scalable solutions.
In French.
Photographer Jörg Brockmann and ceramist Youlichka Fioramonti present a joint exhibition that transposes the human body onto porcelain through cyanotype processes. Brockmann’s images are photographed and printed onto film, then transferred onto light-sensitive porcelain plates before firing. Fioramonti’s ceramic practice engages this material translation, emphasizing the interplay of light, chemistry and fire. The works probe material transformation, the role of chance within analogue techniques and a dialogue between photographic form and crafted surface.
Capucine Pageron presents a series of miniature ceramic interiors in which a female figure performs everyday gestures. Bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms freeze familiar actions in intimately scaled scenes that blend matte and glossy textures. Vivid glazes articulate a compact, anachronistic visual language, where domestic habit becomes sculptural tableau. The works foreground material tactility and the quiet choreography of ordinary acts, inviting close attention to form, color and the poetics of domestic space.
Opening: 19 septembre 11:00 – 17:00, in the presence of the artist
Closing: 27 septembre 11:00 – 17:00, in the presence of the artist
PCC 2024 presents a city-wide parcours of contemporary ceramics by a collective of local and regional ceramists. The programme showcases functional and sculptural work, installations and experimental glazing techniques that interrogate surface, form and material memory. Through dialogues between craft and concept, the parcours highlights processes such as wheel-throwing, hand-building and mixed-media collaborations, inviting reflection on the cultural and tactile histories embedded in clay.
Sergei Parajanov’s seminal avant-garde film reimagines the biopic of Armenian poet Sayat‑Nova as a sequence of poetic tableaux. Prioritizing image, symbol and ritual over conventional narrative, the film stages a meditative exploration of art, spirituality and cultural memory. Lush compositions, theatrical performances and rhythmic montage create a sensorial, dreamlike experience that foregrounds heritage and identity. The Color of Pomegranates remains a visually radical testament to cinematic poetry and the transformative power of metaphor.
In Armenian with French subtitles.
Amélie Patry presents a body of ceramic work rooted in the landscapes of the Loire Valley. Through long walks she collects soils, stones and vegetal matter which she incorporates directly into her vessels. Her process—digging, carrying and shaping—follows a slow attentiveness to material transformation. Fired in the kiln, these gathered elements yield irregular surfaces and textured skins that suggest mineral reliefs and fossil fragments, connecting body, landscape and layered temporalities.
Giulio Regeni, Tutto il male del mondo reconstructs the judicial truth behind the abduction, torture and murder of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni near Cairo in February 2016. This investigative documentary pieces together legal findings, testimony and archival material to trace the case’s painstaking unraveling, offering a sober, forensic cinematic approach. The film’s tone is restrained yet urgent, foregrounding human loss and the pursuit of justice. Original Italian audio with English subtitles.
Special screening in partnership with Amnesty International and in collaboration with the Geneva section of the Partito Democratico and ANPI – Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d’Italia.
Facilitated by coaches from Big Bloom, this collaborative hackathon gathers leaders, managers, employees and students to tackle workplace burnout through collective problem-solving.
Participants investigate causes like mental overload and performance culture, ideate and prototype practical interventions to detect early signs and redesign workloads and rhythms. The session emphasizes actionable strategies for organizations to preserve team energy and implement tested, scalable solutions.
In French.
Photographer Jörg Brockmann and ceramist Youlichka Fioramonti present a joint exhibition that transposes the human body onto porcelain through cyanotype processes. Brockmann’s images are photographed and printed onto film, then transferred onto light-sensitive porcelain plates before firing. Fioramonti’s ceramic practice engages this material translation, emphasizing the interplay of light, chemistry and fire. The works probe material transformation, the role of chance within analogue techniques and a dialogue between photographic form and crafted surface.
Capucine Pageron presents a series of miniature ceramic interiors in which a female figure performs everyday gestures. Bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms freeze familiar actions in intimately scaled scenes that blend matte and glossy textures. Vivid glazes articulate a compact, anachronistic visual language, where domestic habit becomes sculptural tableau. The works foreground material tactility and the quiet choreography of ordinary acts, inviting close attention to form, color and the poetics of domestic space.
Opening: 19 septembre 11:00 – 17:00, in the presence of the artist
Closing: 27 septembre 11:00 – 17:00, in the presence of the artist
PCC 2024 presents a city-wide parcours of contemporary ceramics by a collective of local and regional ceramists. The programme showcases functional and sculptural work, installations and experimental glazing techniques that interrogate surface, form and material memory. Through dialogues between craft and concept, the parcours highlights processes such as wheel-throwing, hand-building and mixed-media collaborations, inviting reflection on the cultural and tactile histories embedded in clay.
Sergei Parajanov’s seminal avant-garde film reimagines the biopic of Armenian poet Sayat‑Nova as a sequence of poetic tableaux. Prioritizing image, symbol and ritual over conventional narrative, the film stages a meditative exploration of art, spirituality and cultural memory. Lush compositions, theatrical performances and rhythmic montage create a sensorial, dreamlike experience that foregrounds heritage and identity. The Color of Pomegranates remains a visually radical testament to cinematic poetry and the transformative power of metaphor.
In Armenian with French subtitles.
Amélie Patry presents a body of ceramic work rooted in the landscapes of the Loire Valley. Through long walks she collects soils, stones and vegetal matter which she incorporates directly into her vessels. Her process—digging, carrying and shaping—follows a slow attentiveness to material transformation. Fired in the kiln, these gathered elements yield irregular surfaces and textured skins that suggest mineral reliefs and fossil fragments, connecting body, landscape and layered temporalities.
Giulio Regeni, Tutto il male del mondo reconstructs the judicial truth behind the abduction, torture and murder of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni near Cairo in February 2016. This investigative documentary pieces together legal findings, testimony and archival material to trace the case’s painstaking unraveling, offering a sober, forensic cinematic approach. The film’s tone is restrained yet urgent, foregrounding human loss and the pursuit of justice. Original Italian audio with English subtitles.
Special screening in partnership with Amnesty International and in collaboration with the Geneva section of the Partito Democratico and ANPI – Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d’Italia.
Facilitated by coaches from Big Bloom, this collaborative hackathon gathers leaders, managers, employees and students to tackle workplace burnout through collective problem-solving.
Participants investigate causes like mental overload and performance culture, ideate and prototype practical interventions to detect early signs and redesign workloads and rhythms. The session emphasizes actionable strategies for organizations to preserve team energy and implement tested, scalable solutions.
In French.
Photographer Jörg Brockmann and ceramist Youlichka Fioramonti present a joint exhibition that transposes the human body onto porcelain through cyanotype processes. Brockmann’s images are photographed and printed onto film, then transferred onto light-sensitive porcelain plates before firing. Fioramonti’s ceramic practice engages this material translation, emphasizing the interplay of light, chemistry and fire. The works probe material transformation, the role of chance within analogue techniques and a dialogue between photographic form and crafted surface.
Capucine Pageron presents a series of miniature ceramic interiors in which a female figure performs everyday gestures. Bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms freeze familiar actions in intimately scaled scenes that blend matte and glossy textures. Vivid glazes articulate a compact, anachronistic visual language, where domestic habit becomes sculptural tableau. The works foreground material tactility and the quiet choreography of ordinary acts, inviting close attention to form, color and the poetics of domestic space.
Opening: 19 septembre 11:00 – 17:00, in the presence of the artist
Closing: 27 septembre 11:00 – 17:00, in the presence of the artist
Explore the magic of shadows in a playful theatre workshop where children learn to tame the night through storytelling and light. Participants will craft silhouettes, manipulate puppets and experiment with movement and flickering illumination to create short shadow scenes. The session encourages creativity, teamwork and sensory discovery as kids shape characters, sounds and atmosphere using simple materials and gestures, and see their ideas come to life on a screen.
In French. Kids ages 9 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Aldo Locatelli presents a diverse body of work spanning decades, rooted in experimentation and improvisation.
Paintings in oil, mixed-media pieces, ink drawings, sculptures, floral assemblages under plexiglas and repurposed objects converse through a tactile visual language. His practice moves between abstraction and figuration, privileging matter, color and gestural mark-making to explore observation, the living world and unexpected material affinities. The show reveals a restless creativity driven by curiosity, collage-like associations and continual recomposition.
Opening: Wednesday, 16 September, 18:00
Closing event: Sunday, 27 September, 17:00
The brass ensemble FanfareduLoup returns to Caboom to lead a lively community ball. Musicians invite everyone to dance and share a convivial musical moment, blending driving rhythms and a welcoming atmosphere. Presented within the Caboom Festival organised by Caritas Genève, the event brings people together through concerts, activities and playful gatherings for all ages, offering opportunities to connect and celebrate community spirit.
Peter Evans Extra brings together three of contemporary music’s most daring improvisers in a high‑velocity sonic pursuit that redefines the jazz trio. The band fuses Evans’s sculptural trumpet vocabulary with Petter Eldh’s hyperactive bass and Jim Black’s unpredictable rhythmic bursts, producing a kinetic, ever‑shifting soundscape where silence and noise collide. Their 2024 debut, EXTRA (We Jazz Records), was praised as one of the year’s best jazz records for its technical daring and anarchic spirit.
André Ourednik, Heike Fiedler and Begoña Feijoo Fariña reflect on the relationships between writing, plurilingualism, creative practice and cultural contexts. The roundtable investigates how authors navigate multiple languages in their work, the effects of linguistic hybridity on narrative form, and the role of translation, memory and belonging in artistic creation. The discussion is moderated by Mélanie Chappuis today.
In French.
Presented by Creative BPM, Tremplin Mouvement gathers emerging female choreographers and dancers from street and clubbing cultures to present short, 15-minute works. The evening showcases experimental approaches to movement, rhythm and club aesthetics, foregrounding techniques drawn from Afro‑diasporic popular cultures. Intimate and kinetic, the programme favors testing new forms, bold improvisation and visceral staging, offering snapshots of a vibrant, evolving scene and a platform for practices often underrepresented in Geneva.
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.
PCC 2024 presents a city-wide parcours of contemporary ceramics by a collective of local and regional ceramists. The programme showcases functional and sculptural work, installations and experimental glazing techniques that interrogate surface, form and material memory. Through dialogues between craft and concept, the parcours highlights processes such as wheel-throwing, hand-building and mixed-media collaborations, inviting reflection on the cultural and tactile histories embedded in clay.
Sergei Parajanov’s seminal avant-garde film reimagines the biopic of Armenian poet Sayat‑Nova as a sequence of poetic tableaux. Prioritizing image, symbol and ritual over conventional narrative, the film stages a meditative exploration of art, spirituality and cultural memory. Lush compositions, theatrical performances and rhythmic montage create a sensorial, dreamlike experience that foregrounds heritage and identity. The Color of Pomegranates remains a visually radical testament to cinematic poetry and the transformative power of metaphor.
In Armenian with French subtitles.
Amélie Patry presents a body of ceramic work rooted in the landscapes of the Loire Valley. Through long walks she collects soils, stones and vegetal matter which she incorporates directly into her vessels. Her process—digging, carrying and shaping—follows a slow attentiveness to material transformation. Fired in the kiln, these gathered elements yield irregular surfaces and textured skins that suggest mineral reliefs and fossil fragments, connecting body, landscape and layered temporalities.
Giulio Regeni, Tutto il male del mondo reconstructs the judicial truth behind the abduction, torture and murder of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni near Cairo in February 2016. This investigative documentary pieces together legal findings, testimony and archival material to trace the case’s painstaking unraveling, offering a sober, forensic cinematic approach. The film’s tone is restrained yet urgent, foregrounding human loss and the pursuit of justice. Original Italian audio with English subtitles.
Special screening in partnership with Amnesty International and in collaboration with the Geneva section of the Partito Democratico and ANPI – Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d’Italia.
Facilitated by coaches from Big Bloom, this collaborative hackathon gathers leaders, managers, employees and students to tackle workplace burnout through collective problem-solving.
Participants investigate causes like mental overload and performance culture, ideate and prototype practical interventions to detect early signs and redesign workloads and rhythms. The session emphasizes actionable strategies for organizations to preserve team energy and implement tested, scalable solutions.
In French.
Photographer Jörg Brockmann and ceramist Youlichka Fioramonti present a joint exhibition that transposes the human body onto porcelain through cyanotype processes. Brockmann’s images are photographed and printed onto film, then transferred onto light-sensitive porcelain plates before firing. Fioramonti’s ceramic practice engages this material translation, emphasizing the interplay of light, chemistry and fire. The works probe material transformation, the role of chance within analogue techniques and a dialogue between photographic form and crafted surface.
Capucine Pageron presents a series of miniature ceramic interiors in which a female figure performs everyday gestures. Bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms freeze familiar actions in intimately scaled scenes that blend matte and glossy textures. Vivid glazes articulate a compact, anachronistic visual language, where domestic habit becomes sculptural tableau. The works foreground material tactility and the quiet choreography of ordinary acts, inviting close attention to form, color and the poetics of domestic space.
Opening: 19 septembre 11:00 – 17:00, in the presence of the artist
Closing: 27 septembre 11:00 – 17:00, in the presence of the artist
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