Delphine Jeanneret

Delphine Jeanneret is a film curator and lecturer at Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD – Genève), where she gives a course on the power of representation in contemporary cinema with a focus on gender, decolonial and ecological studies. She oversees the film program for the section Open Doors at Locarno Film Festival and is part of the artistic committee at Int. Kurzfilmtage Winterthur. In 2015, she cofounded the Festival Cinéma Jeune Public in Lausanne to engage with young audiences.

She has been programming films in festivals, art spaces and film institutions for 20 years and is strongly involved in programs that aim at revealing young filmmakers with new aesthetics. She curated film programs at Cinéma Plaza, Zurich Film Festival, Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Cinémathèque Suisse, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Cineteca Nacional de Mexico to name a few. She counts numerous participations in juries, labs and round tables in international festivals and institutions such as Cannes, IFF Rotterdam, IndieLisboa, Festival Nouveau Cinéma Montréal, Goa Film Bazaar, Dokufest, Austrian Film Museum, Warsaw Int. Film Festival, etc. She is also the chair of the association Ciné-Doc, promoting documentary forms in Switzerland, as well as a member of the Swiss Film Academy and the European Film Academy.