Established in 1995, the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) showcases a diverse programme featuring films, TV series and digital arts for ten days every year. It also devotes considerable attention to innovation, music and up-and-coming talent in its various programs.
Further details : http://www.giff.ch
Arthur Penn is one of the precursors of the New Hollywood, the impetus given to American cinema in the late 1960s by a handful of daring directors who loved creative freedom. Known for his great box office success with Bonnie and Clyde, Penn is also the author of many masterpieces, such as Little Big Man. A funny Voltairian tale, this film showed that, in the Wild West, civilization was not on the side of Col. Custer but rather of the Cheyenne… And what about the little-known Four Friends, who evokes, through allusions, the assassination of President Kennedy, racial segregation, the Vietnam War and thus questions the “American dream”? or the Chase, a tragic portrait of an America in the grip of its demons, with Jane Fonda, Marlon Brando and Robert Redford? All these films are to be discovered at the Cinemas du Grütli from 27 November to 17 December.
To accompany this retrospective, we welcome, on December 13 and 14, director Jonathan Nossiter (Sunday Signs and Wonders and obviously Mondovino), Arthur Penn’s admirer. He will tell us about his friendship with Penn (who passed away in 2010), present a handful of his films and show Searching for Arthur, an interview he shot in Manhattan with him.
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This wonderful Christmas Market transforms one of the most beautiful parks of Geneva with a profusion of lights and scenery that lead you through the Christmas Village. Here you will find local producers, designers, craftsmen and other wonderful surprises, alongside Chalets serving mulled wine, raclette and many others delicacies from a lobster roll to strudel for you to share with family or friends.
Or what could be more enjoyable than a fondue in an all-wooden chalet in the heart of the Christmas Market? Le Chalet is an authentic fondue restaurant with 150 seats and is open every lunchtime and evening, however you will need to book your table in advance online.
For the children there is an ice-skating rink and a beautiful ancient carousel, as well as a Chalet where stories, workshops and other children’s activities will take place.
More information : http://www.noelauxbastions.ch/
SCHEDULE:
Monday to Wednesday : 11am – 9pm
Thursday to Saturday : 11am – 10pm
Sunday : 11am – 8pm
FONDUE CHALET
Monday to Wednesday : 11am – 11pm
Thursday to Saturday : 11am – 00am
Sunday : 11am – 10pm
EXCEPTIONS
4th December : 5pm – 10pm
24th December : 11am – 4pm
25th December : CLOSED
31st December : 11am – 4pm
Global Migration Film Festival proudly introduces an amazing film ‘STYX’ : A busy doctor sails across the Atlantic from Gibraltar to Ascension Island – fulfilling a life dream, at last. But everything changes as she approaches a damaged, overloaded boat of migrants and refugees, pleading for their lives as the seas turn rough. Instinctively, she begins to organise help to save these people from drowning. But her efforts are in vain. Styx depicts a woman’s transformation as she is abruptly torn away from her comfortable life, and as she realises the limits of her own importance and of the empathy her world is capable of.
“Should a lone yachtswoman act when authorities tell her to sail away? Wolfgang Fischer’s drama steers into Europe’s migrant influx with conviction.” – The Guardian
*The film (2018, 94 minutes, in English with French and German subtitles) will be followed by a panel discussion.
*The screening is part of the Global Migration Film Festival and it is organised in partnership with the Geneva Graduate Institute
*Entry is free, but seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
ON DECEMBER 6th from 9pm, THE RELICS, a Geneva-based cover band playing a mixture of pop and rock from bands like Muse, Ben Harper, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Doors will be playing at the Lady Godiva Pub in Plainpalais.
Come along if you want to have fun! Check out this video of their first gig at the same venue below
MORE INFO
Website: http://www.ladyg.ch
Fast. Funny. Made up. The improv comedy show for those who love to laugh!
Feeling blue as the winter holidays end? Find yourself forlorn as you take down the decorations? Catch yourself staring at the calendar and thinking, with rising panic ‘Wow. 2020. A new year. A new decade.’?
We’ve got your back.
Grab a friend and start the year off right with Geneva’s premier Renegade Saints improv: the faces are familiar, the scenes are fresh.
As always:
– Tickets go on sale from 19h00 just outside of the room
– Doors open at 19h30
– Show starts at 20h00
– Tickets are 10CHF at the door (cash only)
The Renegade Saints are a well-oiled improv comedy machine. Blending a range of backgrounds in a typically Genevan international community style, the Renegade Saints have been bringing their patented wit and side-splittingly hilarious fast-paced improv style to this glamorous basement stage since 2013.
You can catch them monthly at the Mr. Pickwick Pub (normally the 2nd Thurs of each month), at festivals, and book them for private shows, workshops for your organization. They also run improv classes.
Swiss Premiere Screening of “Doin’ My Drugs” film in Geneva followed by discussion: HIV: 40 years Later, Discrimination Still Kills, with panelists Buttenschøn, Rosen, and Osborne; Charlotte Sector, moderator.
Mr PIckwick invites you all to one of his favourite annual events., St Patrick’s day.
Kevin Lloyd will start with a set of traditional Irish classics, followed by high energy Pirate Punk band, the High Sea Looters.
We’ll be serving green beer & you can have a silly hat too.
Lá an Phádraig sona, Slainte!
More information: here
