– festival

Cultur’halle Film Festival (CHFF) is a festival of contemporary art short films.

This festival is organized to promote and enhance modern experimental short and medium-length films, to honor avant-garde artistic productions in cinema as well as to create encounters and share ideas and creations. A living festival.

Ticketing

– OFFICIAL SELECTION 2025 –

PROGRAMME 23 OCTOBER 2025: CONCEPTU’HALLE CATEGORY

3:15 4’58

A young woman wakes up at a deserted bus stop. As she walks down a quiet road, unsettling signs lead her to a chilling discovery.

Daniel Alexandru Libeg | VO (EN) | 4 min 58 sec | 2025 | ROMANIA

A Snake in the Grass 20’

Tara leaves in a traditional rural village where a construction program of new houses takes place. She meet a worker and will escape with him on a romantic journey, at the risk of creating jealousy in the village.
The film struggle with the social yoke about marriage and the danger of a forbidden love in South India, the land of snakes.

Fu Le | VO (EN/HI/TA) | 20 min | 2025 | FRANCE / INDIA

Pear Garden 7’04

Six years old Lily visits her grandmother after grandma had a mastectomy and doesn’t have breasts anymore. At night, Lily finds out that the shadow of grandma has the breasts, Lily follows her and tries to get the breasts back for her grandma.

Shadab Shayegan | VO (FA) | 7 min 04 sec | 2024 | GERMANY / IRAN

SENSIBLE 7’

“In the heart of emptiness, as well as in the heart of man, there are fires that burn.” SENSIBLE invites us to experience, through dance and the works of Yves Klein, a sensory and hypnotic journey.

Axel Chemin | VO (FR) | 7 min | 2024 | FRANCE

PROGRAMME 23 OCTOBER 2025: MOVEMENT CATEGORY

Everyone Left 4’

This film explores the alternate, dark memories of a abandoned spaces, revealing fragments of a forgotten past or glimpses into a possible future. 

Abby Warrilow and Leiws Gourlay | VO (EN) | 4 min | 2025 | UNITED KINGDOM

EDGE 14’

Locked in, separated by a huge glass and deprived of speech, two people meet without knowing how they got there. Where are the limits that prevent us from acting in unjust situations? Are they physical or are they within us?

Abel Moreno Pradas | VO (ES) | 14 min | 2025 | SPAIN

Technophobia 3’52

A flag-waver pursues his passion on a Sunday morning in an unusual setting somewhere in Switzerland. We see a flag floating, swinging, and dancing. Flag-waving is usually celebrated with a national flag, today the flag is white. A forgotten Swiss tradition becomes contemporary as it meets brute, so-called modern architecture and makes a statement against today’s war and devastation.

Rio Wolta | VO (EN) | 3 min 52 sec | 2025 | SWITZERLAND

Dream’s Descent 10’14

“Dream’s Descent” is a hauntingly surreal dance film that traces the journey of a solitary dancer as he navigates a dreamlike landscape fractured by memory, identity and desire. Drawn into a shifting world where time dissolves and space contracts, he encounters fragmented versions of himself, each embodying a suppressed emotion, forgotten trauma or repressed aspiration.

Sara Gouveia, Inka Kendzia and Gregory Maqoma | VO (EN) | 10 min 14 sec | 2025 | SOUTH AFRICA

LYMPH – DANCE FOR THE PLANET, REACH OUT TO THE NATURE 3’09

Rhythm and movement are inherent in man and nature, to the point that in all cultures we find music and dance connected to ritual and worship, often as a representation of life itself.

Carlo Magrì | VO (IT) | 3 min | 2024 | ITALY

RENDERING 13′

RENDERING is the unfolding of a research inquiry into how the body becomes visible under the conditions of algorithmic self-exposure. Visibility is not free; it is formatted, mediated, calculated. The selfie emerges as a micro-choreography of the self: a rehearsed, repeated, adjusted, and filtered gesture. A choreography on demand, shaped by the expectation of legibility. Identity inscribes itself on the surface between the skin that senses and the screen that demands. The body moves closer in order to exist, and in that effort, it is continually molded. It is not about appearing more. It is about what still insists when everything has already been shown.

Phillipe Noguchi and Artur Miranda | VO (PT-BR) | 13 min | 2025 | BRAZIL

– support

The Cultur’Halle Association brings together those who give special support to the Cultur’Halle Film Festival (CHFF).

Become a member and benefit from advantages during the Festival.

  • Festival subscription at an exceptional price of 20% of the full price + a reserved seat for the festival screening (by registering at contact [at] chff [dot] ch).

Annual subscription 2022-2023

  • Famili’Halle reduced rate
    (AVS, AI, apprentice, student, unemployed)
    CHF 20.00
  • Famili’Halle rate
    CHF 50.00
  • Famili’Halle Duo
    CHF 70.00
  • Famili’Halle Support
    CHF 100.00

– partenership

You benefit by becoming a partner of the CHFF :

  • You allow the existence of a quality event based in Geneva.
  • You associate your image with the DNA of the festival: a cultural event arousing emotions and wonder.
  • You benefit from an active multi-channel communication all year round at the national level.
  • You reach a local, young and curious public.

Your support to the CHFF also gives you :

  • A VIP pass.
  • Invitations to the screenings of your choice.

We are listening to your ideas !

Contact us at: contact [at] chff [dot] ch

– team

Jo lima
General and artistic director

Ananda Roubian
Multimedia design manager

Brenda Alexandre
Administrative assistant

– contact

Cultur’halle Film Festival

+41 78 742 28 23
contact [at] chff [dot] ch
CH – Genève

Email

– Useful information

Screening (Provisional) on Thursday 23 October 2025 at 19:30 at Fonction cinéma :

Maison des Arts du Grütli
16, rue du Général Dufour
1204 Geneva

Ticketing on reservation : contact@chff.ch