Ciné-club #3 in Geneva

Our third screening is an opportunity to discover a surprising and rarely seen film: Nightshift by Robina Rose, with our guest, filmmaker Callisto McNulty, and the #cine Genève association.

Nightshift (1981) plunges us into the night at a hotel in Portobello, a neighbourhood in West London, a hotspot of the Swinging Sixties and marked by the punk and underground movements of the era. The receptionist, played by punk icon Jordan (Pamela Rooke), witnesses a parade of unusual and ghostly characters. Like a mosaic, the film is a spellbinding waking dream.

“Nightshift is a revelation that unfolds slowly and finds its rightful place alongside Chantal Akerman and Marguerite Duras.” (Sarah Cooper)

→Nighshift at the Grütli cinema in Geneva

A new initiative

Loreley Films is taking part in the launch of a new project as a guest curator. ANOTHER STORY is an initiative, supported by the Creative Europe programme, which aims to rethink the history of documentary cinema by highlighting the work of European female filmmakers who have been overlooked by the dominant narratives of cinema.

→Presentation of Another Story

On March 8th: Wikipedia Session + Film in Bern

What a wonderful and inspiring International Women's Day we celebrated this past March!

Loreley Films hosted another interactive gathering in Bern, Switzerland. With Who writes his_story, we wrote new articles about women directors from Bern, Switzerland, and beyond.

Afterward, we gathered at the Rex Kino to watch DONNA: WOMEN IN REVOLT by Yvonne Scholten, who joined us live online for a Q&A session.

Rediscovering gems like this documentary and writing about these films is our way of giving space and voice to women directors and offering a fresh perspective on this important cinematic heritage.

With support from Who writes his_story, Bern für den Film, Suissimage, Rex Kino Bern, The Eye Filmmuseum and Wikimedia CH.

→DONNA: WOMEN IN REVOLT by Yvonne Scholten

Ciné-club #2 in Geneva

A gem on the big screen!

We screened Gertrud Pinkus's A WOMAN'S GREATEST VALUE IS HER SILENCE (Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio) for our second session of the ANOTHER STORY film club.

We were joined by documentary filmmaker and journalist Rachel M'Bon.

The title alone says it all! This innovative and moving film tells the story of Maria, an Italian factory worker who represents all those women from southern Italy who led isolated lives between factory work and family responsibilities in Frankfurt in the 1970s – far from their culture and struggling to find their place.

Wednesday 2 December 2025 at 6.15 p.m.

→Home expo of the Cinémathèque suisse "Breaking the silence"

Editathon and Screenings in Paris

On 25 October 2025, we are organising an editathon on Judit Elek and Hungarian female directors with our partners Les sans pagEs, Le Deuxième Texte, Violette and Co and the Cinémathèque du documentaire as part of the retrospective dedicated to Judit Elek from 17 September to 23 November 2025, entitled ‘L'art des yeux ouverts’. Programme:

11 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.: Wikipedia workshop at Violette and Co, 52 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Paris, followed by a presentation by Loreley Films of A Hungarian Village (6 p.m.) and A Simple Story (8.30 p.m.) at the Forum des images. (photo credit: István Bucsányi)

→About Judit Elek

MAESTRA Ciné-club in Montreuil

At the invitation of programmer Melissa Blanco, we will be screening a restored version of Helke Sander's DIE DEUTSCHEN UND IHRE MÄNNER (1989) on Sunday 19 October at 4pm. This will mark the start of the new season of this film club dedicated to female directors, which was launched in 2023. At Cinéma Le Méliès, 12 Place Jean Jaurès, 93100 Montreuil.

→MAESTRA Programming

Ciné-club #1 in Geneva

We are organising a screening on Thursday 2 October at the Cinémas du Grütli as part of the Une autre histoire cycle, which gives female directors a platform to present little-known or forgotten films from the history of cinema. Our guest Elene Naveriani will present a 1972 film by Yannick Bellon, QUELQUE PART QUELQU'UN, to open this cycle.

→More details