The 28th Geneva Film Festival attracts again with Aronofsky, von Trier, Refn and exciting XR experiments – News – OutNow
While we in German-speaking Switzerland are still waiting for «The Whale» to be released in cinemas, we now know that the film will be shown on a Swiss screen for the first time at the GIFF.
Even if hardly anyone in Switzerland does The whale seen – we are one of the exceptions – as a keen film fan you will have heard from the festivals in Venice, Toronto and London that Brendan Fraser was simply sensational in the drama by Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Mother!) is. Fraser is said to have a good chance of winning the Oscar for best actor for his role as an overweight professor. It is not yet known when the film WILL start in cinemas in German-speaking Switzerland. Those who can’t stand the waiting any longer, the resistance in November as the Geneva Film Festival.
At the festival, the 28th edition of which will take place from November 4th to 13th, 2022 The whale chosen as the graduation film. The screening will take place on November 12th at the Théâtre Pitoëff. On the last official festival day, November 13th, the focus will be specifically on digital experiences.
But the GIFF also offers many highlights in the days before. Including the first two episodes of the third season of Lars von Trier’s gloomy hospital series The kingdom – known to us primarily under the German title “Ghosts”.
The film festival also honors the work of Nicolas Winding Refn (journey) – like von Trier, a Dane – who WILL receive the Geneva Award and also give an online master class. The Swiss premiere of his Netflix series will also take place at the festival Copenhagen cowboy celebrated – all six episodes will be shown.
However, the GIFF is not only a place for classic narrative forms such as films and series, but also for experiments. In the international competition for immersive works, installations and XR offers at the interface between narration and technology can once again be discovered. As festival director Anais Emery says: “The GIFF positions itself as an audiovisual cultural festival in a broader sense. It has its roots in an unconditional love for cinema, but today follows with undiminished fascination and curiosity the new possibilities that image technologies offer to audiovisual film.»
A total of 120 works will be presented at the 28th GIFF, including 10 world premieres, 3 international premieres, 5 European premieres and 67 Swiss premieres. A trip to Geneva is also worthwhile this year.