Irene Muñoz Martín

Servette FC experienced a historic 2023-2024 season. The immersive documentary series Renaissance, produced by AKKA Films, takes a deep dive into the daily life of the "Grenat". Through the lens of talented young Geneva-based filmmakers Dylan Taher and Léo Wadimoff, viewers are given an inside look at a club that has reclaimed its former glory and regained popularity in Geneva after a decade-long struggle (2005-2015). Whether on the field, with their European campaign, the race for the Swiss championship title, and victory in the Swiss Cup, or off the field, with the club's community actions and campaigns to connect with their supporters, Renaissance showcases the moments of triumph as well as the doubts that shaped this unforgettable season.

Fortune and Kevine, two inseparable friends, play on the same first-division football team in Yaoundé, Cameroon. To achieve their dream of playing for a foreign club, they must fight to gain recognition as female footballers. Kevine signs with the renowned FC Nantes and leaves her country, while Fortune hopes to join her one day.

After the coup in Uruguay in 1973, thousands of intellectuals and artists fled the country. The filmmaker’s father was among them and left for Europe. After his passing, she came upon some Super 8 movies and audio files he had recorded. Through this archive, she started building a new family story trying to reveal and understand the silent pain of exile.

We enter a living painting: actors demonstrating to the cries of “They don’t represent us!”, the rallying slogan of the anti-austerity movement in the Puerta del Sol square, who in 2011 shared their desire to create an original space of direct democracy. Like Irene Muñoz Martín. In this personal essay, she returns to this experience that has not yet found its “expression”: a canonical image that she attempts to capture, in vain.