The 26th edition of Black Movie International Independent Film Festival will be held from January 17 to 26. Like every year, the Black Movie team probes the soul of international cinema and concocts a program renowned for its eclecticism, made of scathing subjects and troubled passions, which draws from independent productions from Asia, Africa, and from Latin America.
In the meantime, let’s see the poster for the 2025 edition! For the occasion, graphic designers Neo Neo have graced Black Movie with a proposition shrouded in mystery. Everyone has their own interpretation: is this dark corridor that of a cinema, or of a distressing administrative office worthy of a horror B series? With its colored bars, could this be the mythical test pattern of tube television which would make a headline appearance? You will have understood: through this cryptic visual, the Black Movie Festival once again plays its little offbeat music for the greatest pleasure of the Geneva public.
The arrival of this poster announces the upcoming release of Black Movie’s abundant programming. In a few weeks, it will be possible to explore the new thematic sections inspired by the stories that irrigated the feature and short films of the 2025 vintage. Among the forecasts, we can already cite the impressionist Caught by the Tides by the Chinese Jia Zhangke, the striking allegory Harvest by the Greek Athina Rachel Tsangaris, and the documentary Freedom by Fierro by Mexican director Santiago Esteinou, who will be present in the company of the film’s protagonist César Fierro, freed several years ago from a decades-long wrongful sentence on death row.
In addition to the numerous screenings planned, a new exhibition will be held this year at the Kugler Foundry. Photo Kegham of Gaza : Unboxing will show the archives of the very first photographic studio opened in Gaza in 1944, some of whose funds have been miraculously preserved and saved from oblivion.
