The festival
GFF
The Geneva Fungi Fest is a public festival currently being prepared in Geneva. It brings together cinema, conferences, exhibitions, public events and food-related experiences around fungi and their cultural, scientific and social dimensions. The programme of the first edition is announced progressively.
Cinéma Fungi
Cinéma Fungi is the film section of GFF. It brings together screenings, a competition selection and out-of-competition films around fungi, their environments, their uses and the imaginaries they inspire.
Discover the film section of the festival, the call for films, participation conditions and useful information for filmmakers, artists, documentarians and creators wishing to submit a work.
Go to Cinéma Fungi
Conferences
The conferences at GFF give the floor to people who work with, observe, cultivate, study or tell stories about fungi.
We talk about mycology, cultural uses, food, ecology, images, practices and stories. No need to be a specialist to follow along: curiosity, two available ears and maybe a few questions are enough.
Themes and speakers are announced with the programme.
Exhibitions
GFF includes exhibitions around fungi, their forms, environments, uses and the stories they carry. Images, objects, archives, artworks, documents or scientific material may find their place there, as long as they help us look more closely.
The exhibition programme is announced progressively, once the venues, formats and participants are confirmed.
The gourmet trail
During GFF, partner restaurants are invited to imagine a dish, dessert, drink or small creation inspired by fungi.
The idea is simple: visitors receive a card, move from one place to another, taste, discover, collect stamps, and perhaps end the festival with a full card and a slightly more developed relationship with mushrooms.
The participating addresses and culinary proposals are announced with the programme.
Fungal parade
GFF also invites the public to join a costumed parade along the lakeside. Mushrooms, spores, mycelium, forest creatures, strange hats and all more-or-less identifiable forms of life are welcome.
The parade follows a route along the lake and ends in a public gathering with music, food and festival activities.