Here, cinema is no longer experienced only in the theatre. You can wander through the space during the day, explore exhibitions, dive into the immersive room, and take part in educational activities. The experience extends to the table and is shared over a meal at the Brasserie Europe. It continues in the main auditorium: attending a premiere, reconnecting with a favourite festival, or getting ready for a gaming night. You can enjoy a drink at the Bar-Glacier, or choose the intimacy of a room at the Cinéma-Hôtel Le Plaza and watch, from your bed, a programme curated by the Plaza team, accompanied by a meal tray from the Brasserie Europe. You can spend an entire day — and a night (or more) — at the Plaza, inhabiting the space and turning cinema into a truly immersive experience.

The Plaza champions a contemporary vision of culture as a shared, intergenerational and inclusive experience. From cinema to gastronomy, from graphic novels to video games, from cine-concerts to gaming nights, disciplines intersect, converse and reinvent themselves.

People come to the Plaza to watch films, but also to live, share, eat, sleep, play, listen, discover and learn. The Plaza is a place where new ways of experiencing culture are invented — without borders or opening hours.

“The New Plaza will be a project to which everyone can contribute. Laying a stone, sketching a horizon. In very concrete terms, the public will be invited to help programme the venue, artists to create in residence, and curators to imagine new forms. Open to Geneva and to the world, this new place, enriched by its history, will reinvent the 21st century — nothing less than that.”

Fabien Gaffez, General and Artistic Director

Photos:
Ryan Gosling et Emma Stone, dans La La Land, de Damien Chazelle, 2016. © Shutterstock / SIPA
Cie Gilles Jobin, Virtual Crossings, 2022. © photo Raphaëlle Mueller