Swiss Cinema Wednesdays: “The Hearing”

Since 2009 and every year, the cultural service of Plan-les-Ouates has been keen to introduce you not only to Swiss cinematographic works, but also to highlight the professions of the seventh art through meetings with the public at the at the end of the screenings.

• Free entry, without reservation, subject to availability.
• Film in original version subtitled in French.
• Screening followed by an exchange with director Lisa Gerig (subject to availability).
• In collaboration with FILMEXPLORER.CH.

Documentary, 1h21, legal age 12.
Solothurn Days Prize 2024, best documentary of the Swiss Film Prizes 2024 and the City of Zurich Prize 2023..
Four rejected asylum seekers relive the hearing on the reasons for their flight and thus shed light on the heart of the asylum procedure. Will the people interviewed this time manage to describe their traumatic experiences in a way that meets official criteria? The film gives a first glimpse of the delicate situation of the hearing and thus calls into question the asylum procedure itself.