The Cinémathèque suisse offers daily screenings of heritage films as well as previews in the presence of filmmakers at the Capitole cinema.
The institution offers over 1,000 public screenings every year, attended by film personalities, organises themed cycles, retrospectives, tributes to filmmakers and evening events. Screenings are held at the Capitole cinema in Lausanne. Opened in 1928, renovated in the 1950s and recently restored and expanded, the Capitole is the largest film theatre in the country, with 724 seats in the historic auditorium and 140 in a new auditorium in the basement. In addition to a café on the ground floor, the first floor of the Capitole houses a cinema store.
With a mission to preserve, restore and promote film heritage, the Cinémathèque suisse is now one of the ten largest film archives in the world in terms of the size of its collections, which comprise more than 10 million items. Founded in 1948, the Cinémathèque suisse preserves films (fiction and documentaries) and collects posters, photos, scripts, documentary files and even old equipment in its research and archiving centres in Penthaz and Zurich. It is the only national institution that collects and preserves the bulk of Switzerland’s audiovisual production.
Online ticketing: live.cinematheque.ch (Capitole box office is open Tuesday to Sunday from 2pm until 30 minutes after the start of the last screening).
Access
Metro m2: “Lausanne-Flon” stop.
Bus TL: “Saint-François” stop or “Georgette” stop.
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