The Black Movie International Independent Film Festival in Geneva (17-26 January) is once again set to bring audiences face to face with the beauty as well as the cruelty of the world, with an enticing selection of the best in independent film productions from all over the world. Enriching this fulsome programme are 17 filmmakers who have been invited along to the gathering as well as an as-yet unseen exhibition at the Fonderie Kugler, called "Photo Kegham of Gaza: Unboxing" and curated by visual artist Kegham Djeghalian Junior. Black Movie will also host the entirety of the currently available productions from From Ground Zero [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], a collection of short films made since October 2023 (the start of the war in Gaza) by Palestinian filmmakers, which is representing Palestine at the Oscars. A round-table with Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi and French producer Laura Nikolov, as well as a conversation with French-Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan, will accompany the screenings.

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Furthermore, the festival will welcome Chinese helmer Wang Bing, who will present the two most recent instalments of his documentary trilogy, Youth (Hard Times) [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] and Youth (Homecoming) [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], and will attend a meeting with the audience. Artistic director Maria Watzlawick stresses that 2025 is meant to be the international year of peace and trust, according to the UN, and that “we can dream… Just like the dreams of those directors who make films bearing witness to the incredible diversity our planet has to offer.”

Nestled in the 11 sections that make up the programme are several co-productions and a clutch of European gems. In the To Be Followed… strand, which invites the audience to sample the latest, singular works by six filmmakers whom the festival has been following closely for several years, we find the co-production Harvest [+lee también:
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entrevista: Athina Rachel Tsangari
ficha de la película] by Greece’s Athina Rachel Tsangari, a kind of tragicomic western about modernity that was presented in competition at Venice, and the aforementioned movies by Wang Bing. Cities, a section that homes in on cities going through changes, is playing host to the film L’Homme-Vertige: Tales of a City [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Guadeloupe’s Malaury Eloi Paisley, which powerfully and delicately portrays an almost ghostly Pointe-à-Pitre. Meanwhile, the In Search of Human Rights sidebar, which offers movies with protagonists whose rights are trampled upon, includes Songs of Slow Burning Earth [+lee también:
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entrevista: Olha Zhurba
ficha de la película] by Ukraine’s Olha Zhurba, which talks about a new generation of Ukrainians who dare to imagine a different future, alongside the co-productions My Stolen Planet [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Farahnaz Sharifi, a supremely powerful personal cinematic testimony; The Empty Grave [+lee también:
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entrevista: Agnes Lisa Wegner y Cece M…
ficha de la película] by Agnes Lisa Wegner and Cece Mlay, which lays bare the hypocrisy and cowardice of human beings when confronted by the horrors of the past; and the tragicomedy The New Year That Never Came [+lee también:
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entrevista: Bogdan Mureşanu
ficha de la película] by Romania’s Bogdan Mureşanu, crowned Best Film in Venice’s Orizzonti. In Words Are Golden, which underlines how risky speaking out in public can be, we find Lesson Learned [+lee también:
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entrevista: Bálint Szimler
ficha de la película] by Hungary’s Bálint Szimler. On the other hand, in the section titled The Joys of Marriage, we find the European co-production Sister Midnight [+lee también:
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entrevista: Karan Kandhari
ficha de la película] by India’s Karan Kandhari, an off-the-wall and liberating tale that toys with the codes of black comedy and fantastical film. Lastly, in the Sensitive People section, which gives a voice to men and women who are trying to start anew after enduring trauma or disruption in their lives, audiences will be able to discover Tata [+lee también:
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entrevista: Lina Vdovîi y Radu Ciornic…
ficha de la película] by Romania’s Lina Vdovîi and Radu Ciorniciuc, a remarkably astute examination of transgenerational trauma.