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05-14.03.2027 Geneva
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2026 PROGRAMME
Preceded by the film Belleville Beats

Exposing and Abolishing Police Brutality

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Forum
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Sunday 15 March – 18h00
Preceded by the film Belleville Beats
Espace Pitoëff - Grande Salle
Rue de Carouge 52, 1205 Geneva
Screening with audio description via Greta application
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Black traditions of resistance are central to struggles against police brutality and for racial justice. They have shaped independent inquiries and invite us to imagine what a world without policing might look like.

Radical Black traditions, shaped by resistance to colonialism and slavery, offer a powerful critique of modern punitive institutions. With a focus on Europe and Switzerland, this forum explores two central strands of these struggles for Black lives: on the one hand, independent forms of organising that expose police brutality and deaths at the hands of law enforcement; on the other, the ideas and practices that make it possible to imagine a world without police.

Discussion

Vanessa Eileen Thompson
Professor of Black Studies at Queen's University in Canada (by videoconference)

Un·e membre du Collectif Afro-Swiss et de la commission Nzoy

Moderators

Noémi Michel
Scholar of Critical Black Studies and cultural practitioner

By Hugo Sobelman

Belleville Beats

Belleville nous verra toujours danser
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Competition - Focus

In the north of Paris, La Perm’ welcomes the teenagers of Belleville as a second home. This community space has become both a refuge and a place of creation for Matthieu, Solo, Kany and their group. Through debates, shared dreams and collective projects, they build a space for resistance in the face of the transformation of their neighbourhood, while preparing Belleville en Vrai, a festival where everything they have sown can finally come to fruition.

International Premiere
Section : Competition - Focus
Country : France
Original language : French
Subtitles : English, French
Duration
87’
Year
2025
Director
Hugo Sobelman
Producers
GoGoGo Films
Petit à Petit Production
Mauvaises Herbes
Editing
Muriel Breton
Sound
Claire Cahu
Rights holder
GoGoGo Films
Discussion

Vanessa Eileen Thompson

Professor of Black Studies at Queen's University in Canada (by videoconference)
Vanessa E. Thompson is Associate Professor and Distinguished Professor for Black Studies in the Department of Gender Studies at Queen’s University in Canada. Previously, she worked as a Junior Lecturer at the Europa-University Viadrina and Goethe-University. Her work focuses on the relation between racism and state violence, especially policing, as well as abolitionist resistance and internationalism. She works with abolitionist feminist movements in Europe and globally. She is a Member of the International Independent Commission on the Death of Oury Jalloh.
Discussion

Un·e membre du Collectif Afro-Swiss et de la commission Nzoy

Moderators

Noémi Michel

Scholar of Critical Black Studies and cultural practitioner
Noémi Michel is a research professor, activist and cultural worker, anti-racist and feminist. She is a member of the European Race and Imagery Foundation (ERIF) and of the Faites des Vagues collective. She often teaches at both the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL) and the Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD). Her work, at the intersection of theory and artistic and collective experimentations, is rooted in black critical studies with a focus on black feminist diasporic thoughts. She questions the conflicting grammars of anti-racism in public debates and institutions in Europe as well as the notion of political voice.