The rebirth of a cinema and much more
At the end of 2026, the Plaza will become a cultural center that will bring together, around the iconic movie theater, an immersive room, three exhibition spaces, a library/bookstore, a bar, a restaurant and a cinema-hotel.
The Plaza will keep cinema at its center while opening up to other cultural fields, such as architecture, visual arts, digital creation and literature. (photos of this page Raphaëlle Mueller, Miguel Bueno, Michel Giesbrecht)
While awaiting its definitive reopening, the Plaza has hosted a number of events that have brought the historic cinema back to life for a few days or weeks between 2020 and 2022.
Le Plaza Centre Cinema had the incredible honor to welcome the amazing Isabelle Huppert that arranged a fantastic program of rare films especially for the Plaza.
The public has been able to watch “The Clock”, Christian Marclay’s twenty-four-hour audiovisual work presented in collaboration with Mamco.
Le Plaza Centre Cinema welcomed the Irish director Mark Cousins and his odyssey into the history of cinema.
We’ve been also able to dive into different digital and immersive experiences with “Virtual Crossings” by Compagnie Gilles Jobin or Bianca Li’s “Bal de Paris”.
A place to meet and exchange ideas
The Plaza will host cinema-events: no classic programming, but retrospectives, evenings or thematic weekends, extended to all the spaces of the center, with exhibitions, immersion, gastronomy.
The Plaza is already a partner of three international festivals in Geneva: the GIFF, the FIFDH and Everybody’s Perfect. It will host the major events of these festivals.
The Plaza will be the ideal place for the previews presented by the directors, actors and teams of the films.
The Plaza will be a place for meetings and cross-disciplinary dialogues between cinema and other cultural or social fields, at a local or international level.