Aside from its international competitions, FIFF offers each year six or seven sections which celebrate cinema from all around the world. But there is much more to the Festival than films! FIFF also offers the public a great choice of side events, including Q&As, panel discussions, exhibitions, as well as special receptions and parties.
Scroll down to view this year's programme by section.
GENRE CINEMA (I) : After the apocalypse
The doomsday clock is a few seconds from midnight: all hell has broken loose and survivors wander among Earth’s ruined remains. Humanity is living on borrowed time, at least during FIFF22. This year’s line-up in the Genre Cinema section features a selection of thrilling end-of-the-world and post-apocalyptic films. Whether
recent, iconic, rare, fascinating, explosive or astute, all paint their own picture of a world in ruins and devoid of hope. Thankfully, this is all pure fiction. Or is it?
THE FILMS
| LA JETÉE Chris Marker, 1962 France | SOYLENT GREEN Richard Fleischer, 1973 USA |
| 12 MONKEYS Terry Gilliam, 1995 USA | STALKER Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979 USSR |
| CRUMBS Miguel Llansó, 2015 Spain, Ethiopia, Finland | LA TERRA DEI FIGLI Claudio Cupellini, 2021 Italy, France |
| LANDSCAPE ZERO Bruno Pavić, 2020 Croatia | TIDES Tim Fehlbaum, 2021 Germany, Switzerland |
| MALEVIL Christian de Chalonge, 1981 France, West Germany | LOS ÚLTIMOS DÍAS Àlex Pastor, David Pastor, 2021 Spain, France |
| NIGHT RAIDERS Danis Goulet, 2021 Canada, New Zealand | THE UNSEEN Nicolás Puenzo, 2017 Argentina |
| THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL Ranald MacDougall, 1959 USA | |
THE VIDEO GAME
The video game Un dernier Film (One Last Film) has been developped especially for FIFF. It focuses on a young woman, the sole survivor of an apocalypse, as she and her dog travel around the wasteland of Fribourg, desperately searching for films which are the only remaining vestiges of a world that no longer exists.
THE EVENTS
| Special Screenings Mad Max Night From Saturday 26 to Sunday 27.03 Details |  |
| Exhibition Elsewhere is here Fribourg Centre 18.03 - 26.03.2022 With a ticket from FIFF, receive a free entry at the Maison d’Ailleurs, Yverdon-les-Bains from 1st to 31st March 2022. |  |
| Conference Marc Atallah : L'apocalypse avant le cinéma Genre cinema (I) : After the apocalypse Monday 21.03 | 18:00 - 19:30 Details and booking |  |
GENRE CINEMA (II): Audience Choice
For the second consecutive year, FIFF has commissioned the largest artistic committee in the world: you, the public. Thank you for your commitment! Almost 250 of you have selected your five favourite apocalyptic movies from our shortlist of 50. Ten of you – five German-speakers and five French-speakers – will join the Festival team to
present the winning films. And what a line-up! Five cult classics that do not take themselves too seriously, as Kubrick said, and often inject humour into their storytelling.
THE FILMS
| DR. STRANGELOVE Stanley Kubrick, 1964 UK, USA | INTERSTELLAR Christopher Nolan, 2014 USA, UK, Canada |
| MELANCHOLIA Lars von Trier, 2011 Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany | DONNIE DARKO Richard Kelly, 2001 USA |
| THE WORLD’S END Edgar Wright, 2013 UK, USA | |
MAKE IT FAMILY TIME - The meeting for movie-loving families
Now in its second year, the Make it Family Time Section straddles the divide between FIFF’s two main strands: the central programme geared primarily towards an adult audience, and the school programme Planète Cinéma. It provides an opportunity for different generations to embark on a shared journey to cinematic worlds and cultures which would otherwise remain largely out of view. On the 2022 travel itinerary are eye-opening trips to Iran, Japan, Canada and Argentina.
THE FILMS
| PROGRAMME : MA PLANÈTE Short films Suggested age 4+ | POUPELLE OF CHIMNEY TOWN Yusuke Hirota, 2020 Japan Suggested age 11+ |
| TATTOO YOUR DREAMS Mehdi Ganji, 2021 Iran, Spain Suggested age 7+ | BEANS Tracey Deer, 2020 Canada Suggested age 16+ |
DECRYPTION: Context Culture
What should happen to vintage movies that are considered sexist or racist now, but not necessarily when they were made? Should they be relegated to the scrapheap of history? At FIFF, we prefer a context culture over cancel culture; education over erasure. Without the past, there is no future. We asked 90 Swiss comics to name comedies that would not be made in 2022. A total of 39 did not reply. A further 21 explicitly refused to take part, either because they were fed up with debates on whether nothing is off limits in comedy, or because they stood up for the cancel culture movement. In the end, 30 kindly accepted.
THE FILMS
| LES AVENTURES DE RABBI JACOB Gérard Oury, 1973 France, Italy | LE GENDARME ET LES GENDARMETTES Jean Girault, 1982 France |
| LES VALSEUSES Bertrand Blier, 1974 France | CALMOS Bertrand Blier, 1976 France |
| LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Édouard Molinaro, 1978 France, Italy | LA GRANDE BOUFFE Marco Ferreri, 1973 France, Italy |
| MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN Terry Jones, 1979 UK | THE PARTY Blake Edwards, 1968 USA |
| C’EST ARRIVÉ PRÈS DE CHEZ VOUS Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde, 1974 Belgium | MONTY PYTHON’S THE MEANING OF LIFE Terry Jones, 1983 UK |
THE EVENTS
| Le grand procès de la comédie - Une justice de parodie Sunday 20.03 | 18:00 - 19:30 ARENA 4 In French only Details and booking |  |
DIASPORA : Gjon’s Tears, Albania and Kosovo
Albanian is the sixth most commonly what do we actually know about this community, its culture and its customs? FIFF has long wanted to invite a member of the Albanian-speaking community to curate the Diaspora section. On 22th May 2021, the night of the Eurovision Song Contest, we found the perfect candidate: Gjon’s Tears, who narrowly missed out on the top spot. This Carte Blanche is a chance for the Swiss musician and second-generation Kosovo-Albanian to indulge his other passion: movies.
THE FILMS
| FIN DE PARTIE Fisnik Maxville, 2020 Switzerland | SISTERHOOD Dina Duma, 2021 North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro |
| HIVE Blerta Basholli, 2021 Kosovo, Switzerland, Albania, North Macedonia | SKANDERBEG Sergei Yutkevich, 1953 Albania, USSR |
| THE MARRIAGE Blerta Zeqiri, 2017 Albania, Kosovo | PROGRAMME DE COURTS MÉTRAGES Fisnik Maxville, Dea Gjinovci, Jamie Donoughue Switzerland, Kosovo, UK |
THE EVENTS
| Concert: Gjon's Tears Tuesday 22.03, 20:30 - 22:00 Tickets on nouveaumonde.ch |  |
| Conversation - Gjon’s Tears Diaspora : Gjon’s Tears, Albania and Kosovo Wednesday 23.03 | 18:00 - 19:30 Details and booking |  |
HOMMAGE to Afghan cinema
Since their return to power, the Taliban have immediately embraced a radical form of cancel culture towards the arts, just as they had done between 1996 and 2001. This film industry once again finds itself mothballed, and the threat of auto-da-fés has put its heritage in jeopardy. For FIFF, film festivals must take action to help. We therefore have asked a number of Afghan filmmakers and friends of FIFF to choose key films that were produced when the Taliban were out of power. Their selection shows it was a period of great creativity and hope, which has sadly come to an abrupt end.
THE FILMS
| A FLICKERING TRUTH Pietra Brettkelly, 2015 New Zealand | NOTHINGWOOD Sonia Kronlund, 2017 France, Germany, Qatar |
| KABUL, CITY IN THE WIND Aboozar Amini, 2018 Afghanistan, Germany, Japan, Netherlands | THE ORPHANAGE Shahrbanoo Sadat, 2019 Denmark, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Afghanistan |
| THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED Pieter-Jan De Pue, 2016 Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Afghanistan | A THOUSAND GIRLS LIKE ME Sahra Mani, 2018 Afghanistan, France |
THE EVENTS
| Photo exhibition Ancienne Gare 18.03 - 20.04.2022 According to café’s opening times |  |
NOUVEAU TERRITOIRE : Angola
Jorge Cohen, producer and co-founder of the collective Geração 80, graciously accepted our invitation to curate this section. Cohen is especially enthusiastic as it is the first retrospective of Angolan cinema in more than 20 years. Why did it take so long? Because it is a Portuguese-speaking country? Because of the 25-year-long civil war which erupted after the country won independence in 1975? Cohen’s choice of films highlights the diversity of Angolan cinema. It is high time that it receives the attention it deserves.
THE FILMS
| I LOVE KUDURO Mário Patrocínio, 2014 Angola, Portugal | O GRANDE KILAPY Zézé Gamboa, 2012 Angola, Portugal, Brazil |
| INDEPENDÊNCIA Fradique, 2015 Angola | NJINGA RAINHA DE ANGOLA Sérgio Graciano, 2013 Angola |
| BEYOND MY STEPS Kamy Lara, 2019 Angola | ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow, 2018 Spain, Poland, Belgium, Hungary, Germany |
| KWANDO Kaya Ensor, 2021 USA | AR CONDICIONADO Fradique, 2020 Angola |
| NA CIDADE VAZIA Maria João Ganga, 2004 Angola, Portugal | MWANA NKETO Satanha Cinéfilo, 2021 Angola |
| Programme de courts métrages Fradique, Ery Claver, Gretel Marín, Collectivo, Denis Miala Angola, Egypt, USA | |
THE EVENTS
| Round table: Film making in Angola (tbc) Friday 25.03 | 18:00 - 19:30 |  |
SUR LA CARTE DE Pierre Richard
Sur la carte de is an opportunity for FIFF to recognise the filmmakers it admires, such as Ken Loach and Bong Joon-ho, and the public figures it has a deep affection for, like Geraldine Chaplin and Étienne Daho. This year, FIFF gives free rein to Pierre Richard, the French actor whose on-screen performances are full of innocence and imagination, and speak to our inner child. Despite his international fame, Richard radiates a rare kindness and modesty off-screen. These qualities are reflected in his five film choices, which offer a tiny and discreet insight into the man himself.
THE FILMS
| LES BELLES DE NUIT René Clair, 1952 France, Italy | I NUOVI MOSTRI Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, 1977 Italy |
| LE JOUET Francis Veber, 1976 France | UP IN ARMS Elliott Nugent, 1944 USA |
| ET SI ON VIVAIT TOUS ENSEMBLE ? Stéphane Robelin, 2011 France, Germany | |
THE EVENTS
| Conversation - Pierre Richard Saturday 19.03 | 18:00 - 19:30 Details and booking |  |
Special screenings and Events
Passeport Suisse - Films made by Swiss directors or shot in Switzerland
Midnight Screenings - Not for the faint-hearted!
FIFForum - The FIFF: Not just screenings
