Nice Time(s)

Following the Ciné-club universitaire's 60th anniversary in 2011, several members of the committee began work on a documentary dedicated to the institution's tumultuous history.

Nice Time(s) is a documentary directed by Vania Jaikin Miyazaki about the unsuspected history of Geneva's Ciné-club universitaire.
Founded in 1951 by Claude Goretta, Alain Tanner and Jean Mohr, it has survived to this day against all odds. This film recounts the various battles waged by its key players, with the invaluable support of Freddy Buache, founder of the Swiss Film Archive. They fought not only to gain access to cinema in a Switzerland that at the time regarded it as entertainment for “nannies” and “soldiers on leave”, but also to get it into university, as a subject in its own right worthy of being studied in the same way as literature or science. The stories, often touching, funny or vehement, intersect and respond to each other to give life to an astonishing history.