HEAD Cinema Festival 2025

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The HEAD Cinema Festival returns for its second edition!
From September 24 to 27, 2025, HEAD – Genève invites you to celebrate the next generation of cinema.

Parc Hentsch & HEAD – Genève
Av. de Châtelaine 5 
1203 Genève 

 

Films by students and graduates of the HEAD – Genève Film Department have been selected more than 1,000 times at festivals around the world!
Come and discover a selection of them: outdoors, in the presence of the directors, crews, and our guests.
During the day, take part in masterclasses, workshops, and debates dedicated to the challenges facing cinema tomorrow, with a focus on sustainability this year.

PROGRAM:

  • 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.: MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS, DEBATES 
     
  • 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.: MASTERCLASSES 
    Amandine Gay, Director and author, Paris
    Elene Naveriani, Director, Geneva, HEAD Alumnae, Swiss Film Award 2024
     
  • 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.: DJ SETS, FOOD TRUCKS & SURPRISES
    Dj Mitch, Anita Kirppis, The Young MC
     
  • 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.: OUTDOOR FILM SCREENING
    25 Geneva premieres
     
  • From 10:00 p.m.: FESTIVAL EVENINGS (Friday and Saturday)
    Magz, DJ Panama

ALL INFORMATION & REGISTRATION AT: headcinema.ch
DOWNLOAD THE FULL PROGRAM (in French) 

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SPECIAL GUESTS

Nadine Adler Spiegel, co-directrice de la section cinéma à l’Office fédéral de la culture, Berne; Kayije Kagame, actrice et réalisatrice, Genève; Danaï Anagnostou, productrice et chercheuse Aalto University, Helsinki; Sven Wälti, responsable Cinéma SSR SRG, Berne; Stéphane Morey, secrétaire général Cinéforom; Nora Philippe, directrice Eurodoc, Paris; Marianne Lévy-Leblond, directrice de l’unité création numérique ARTE France, Paris; Déborah Helle, coordinatrice d’intimité, Genève; Jenna Hasse, réalisatrice, Genève; Alice Riva, programmatrice, Genève; Ivonne Gonzalez, juriste et artiste afrocubaine, Genève; Chris Regn, artiste, Hambourg; Zahra Hakim, artiste, Genève; Massimo Nardulli, artistic co-director Less is More, Rome; Alissa Aubenque, directrice des opérations Ecoprod, Paris; Gudula Meinzolt, Green Consultant, Lausanne; Paul Mitchell, réalisateur et producteur, Londres; les collectifs cinéma suisses romands Abordage, Terrain Vague, Revolta, Team Tumult… et plein d’autres !

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FESTIVAL PARTNERS

Autre Terre, Action Film Vert, Arte France, Base-Court, Cinéforom, CinéGlobe, Ecoprod, Eurodoc Network, Fonction Cinéma, La Salle de Sport, Le 99, Less is More, Media Desk Suisse, Noircir Wikipedia, RTS, SRG SSR, Who writes his_story?
 

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