Since 2007, the festival reaches out to children aged 2 to 6 attending childcare centres. It offers a programme of short films from around the world, giving mini viewers their first cinema experience.

This project, carried out in collaboration with the Maison de la Créativité makes it possible to screen the programme within the institutions themselves, with an activity depending on the location (transforming a room into a movie theatre, afternoon tea party, crafting, etc.).

During the 2016 edition, the offer was extended to the canton, and in 2025 around 89 nurseries and kindergartens took part in the Mini Black Movie, with a total of around 4,000 spectators.

This year, the Mini Black Movie invites itself at the Maison de la Créativité on Wednesday 21 and Saturday 24 January.

Since 2007, school screenings are offered to students in public schools (in collaboration with École&Culture) and private schools (AGEP) at the primary school level.

During the 2025 edition, 22 sessions were organised around the theme of fear, bringing together nearly 3,000 pupils.

This year, the programme will invite pupils to ask themselves the following question: what makes us like a film?
Animated works are distinguished by the diversity of their forms and content. By learning to observe the different elements that make up films, viewers will be encouraged to question themselves, assert their tastes, express their sensibilities and refine their view of cinema.

During the autumn of 2025, four programmes of short films have been screened both in the centre of Geneva and in eight neighbouring municipalities (Bernex, Chêne-Bourg, Grand-Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Meyrin, Onex, Plan-les-Ouates and Vernier).
These screening were mostly free and were intended to provide access to quality films for children living in areas where there are no movie theatres.

• Meatballs and Catching Anger – Johan Hagelbäck – Suède – 5’
• Sevanik – Har Toum Arménie – 7’
• Lulina et la Lune – Alois Di Leo, Marcus Vinícius Vasconcelos – Brésil – 14’
• The Table is Set – Taru Riskilä, Sini Pietiläinen, Anni Oja, Markus Tervola, Nuppu Nykyri – Finlande – 4’
• The Goose – Jan Mika – Tchéquie – 13’

• The Kite – Martin Smatana – Tchéquie, Slovaquie – 13’
• Komaneko - A New Journey – Tsuneo Goda – Japon – 8’
• Princess Aubergine – Dina Velikovskaya – Russie – 8’
• Blue – Maryam Farahzadi – Iran – 4’
• Filante – Marion Jamault – France – 9’

• Fruits of Clouds – Kateřina Karhánková – Tchéquie – 10’
• Matilda – Irene Iborra, Eduard Puertas – Espagne – 7’
• Invasor da Madrugada – João Victor de Oliveira, Marco Nick – Brésil – 3’
• Hoofs on Skates – Ignas Meilūnas – Lituanie – 12’
• Cœur Fondant – Benoît Chieux – France – 11’

• Mogu & Perol – Tsuneo Goda – Japon – 9’
• Planet Z - Surprise Egg – Maria Björklund – Finlande – 7’
• The Odd Carrot – Inese Pavēne – Lettonie – 10’
• La Soupe de Franzy – Ana Chubinidze – Géorgie, France – 9’
• The Swineherd – Magnus Igland Møller, Peter Smith – Danemark – 7’

Since the beginning of the 2013-14 school year, the festival has been offering children attending GIAP (extracurricular activities) some film screenings (in the context of “Ateliers Mobiles de la Ville de Genève”) and moving picture workshops encouraging them to build optical games or make short animated films.

You can find a selection of films made during previous workshops at this address: www.vimeo.com/album/4286651

A jury made up of children aged 7 to 10 (registrations are open to the public) will be asked, after a short training session, to evaluate a selection of short animated films and to select the film to be awarded the the Children’s prize.

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