38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Champ de Mars

Rokhaya Marieme Balde

Image Champ de Mars
Switzerland
2019 Fiction 14 min
In a retirement home, a film crew tries to shoot a thriller in which a nutritionist decides to ban sweets, driving three residents to take the situation in hand.
With : Armand Frédéric Ismaël Buri, Colette Antonioti, Gilberte Gioanoli, Camille Buzaglo
Screenplay : Rokhaya Marieme Balde
Image : Raphaël Harari
Sound : Antonin Ivanidze
Editing : David Nguyen
Music : Elephant Troop, Asher Varadi
Production : HEAD – Genève, Haute école d'art et de design
Rokhaya Marieme Balde is a Senegalese director who was born in Dakar. She began her film studies at Sup Imax Dakar (Institut Supérieur des Arts et Métiers du Numérique). After experiences in China and Montreal, she chose the HEAD school in Geneva to do her Bachelor's degree in directing.