FIT 2026 programme

29.09
20:00
30.09
20:00
Raissa Avilés
Maybe a concert
Switzerland/Mexico
performative concert
A mariachi musician, a glittering cowboy... where’s the line between music and performance? Between languages and genres?
Maybe a concert goes far beyond the traditional concert format, combining music and stage performance in an open structure. At the centre of the work is the voice of Raissa Avilés, a Swiss singer, performer and songwriter of Mexican origin.
Raissa Avilés_photo_Massimiliano Rossetto
02.10
18:00
Boris Nikitin/Tšeliso Monaheng
Kids (working title)
Switzerland/South Africa
theatre and live cinema from Johannesburg
Three cities – Lugano, Basel and Johannesburg – will be connected live with the audience to follow, on a big cinema screen, the adventures of a group of young people wandering through the night in Johannesburg. A documentary in a feverish state.
Kids_rehearsals_photo_Tšeliso Monaheng_2
02.10
21:00
Khalil Hentati
Aïchoucha
Tunisia
immersive film concert
A rare immersive experience that is at once intimate, poetic, & deeply contemporary. A journey through time and space, exploring and reinterpreting traditional Tunisian music through synthesisers, recordings, cassettes, CDs and vinyl records.
Aichoucha_photo_Khalil Hentati & Hamza Bennour
03–04.10
/07–11.10
AT DIFFERENT TIMES
Alan Alpenfelt/ Sentieri Selvaggi
Checkpoint Utopia (working title)
SWITZERLAND
performative installation
The FIT co-creation project is back. Together with a group of teenagers aged between 16 and 22, the artist compares his youthful utopian ideals with today’s ones: what are the ideal worlds to dream of, and will we ever be able to create them? How many lives do we have left to succeed?
Gottfrid Alpenfelt_Ritratto di Alan mentre gioca
03.10
18:00
Cine Laterale
Future Tradition * Łukasz Twarkowski
Poland
video interview
What cultural responsibilities come with experimentation? An exclusive interview with the acclaimed Polish theatre director, set designer and visual artist, conducted as part of Laterale, the new research project exploring and questioning the international art scene.
Łukasz Twarkowski_photo_Kris Wik
03.10
20:30
Islam Elarabi
Just One Tile شبر وقبضة
EGYPT
performance/dance
Power, pride, fear, anger and joy take shape in a dance that balances physical strength and poetic sensitivity. Just One Tile conveys the urgency, hope and desire for freedom of all those who continue to dance in defiance of all forms of oppression.
Islam Elarabi_photo_Moustafa Abdelaty
03.10
21:00
Oulouy
Black
IVORY COAST/SPAIN
performance/dance
This iconic performance is regarded as an anthem for the Afro-European artistic community. An exploration of violence and the emancipation of Blackness in our present moment. A dance, a visual and musical chronicle, narrated through street dance styles and the African diaspora in the US.
Oulouy_photo_ClaudiuP
04.10
11:00
Laterale Cine Marathon
Future Tradition * Twarkowski / Guiela Nguyen / Harrell
Poland/France/USA/Switzerland
video interviews
Three key figures on the contemporary art scene, three conversations exploring memory and innovation, nostalgia for the past and visions of the future, conducted as part of the new research project Laterale.
GUIELA NGUYEN_TWARKOWSKI_HARRELL
04.10
16:00
I fratelli Caproni
L’omino del pane e l’omino della mela
ITALY
theatre/clownerie
Two lovable clowns have decided to prepare a hearty little lunch for the children and reveal the secrets of the most delicious foods and how to make them. It’s a shame that one of them, who’s a bit clumsy, has only bought a loaf of bread and an apple… What a bummer! How will they manage?
L’omino del pane e l’omino della mela_photo_Roberto Rognoni
06.10
09:30
ArteVOX/ Accademia Perduta
Bella, bellissima!
ITALY
puppet theatre
Somewhere, there lives a Witch. She has tousled hair, a prominent nose, dresses in dark clothes, and when she laughs, she’s really quite frightening. For her birthday, she receives an invitation from Ogre: a rendezvous in the moonlight. He thinks she’s bella, bellissima, just so beautiful...
Bella, bellissima_photo_Francesco Bondi
07.10
18:00
Cine Laterale
Future Tradition * Caroline Guiela Nguyen
France
video interview
How does an artist experience the dialogue between memory and innovation, between nostalgia for the past and imagination of the future? An intriguing conversation with the French author, director and playwright Caroline Guiela Nguyen, conducted as part of Laterale, the new research project exploring and questioning the international art scene.
Caroline Guiela Nguyen_photo_Manuel Braun
08.10
10:00
Kronoteatro
Galassia Annika
ITALY
theatre
Becoming an astronaut is no easy feat. Especially if you’re just over ten years old... Galassia Annika is the tale of a journey and the preparations for that journey. It is a love story, but without flowers and little hearts everywhere; more like asteroids and shooting stars. It is a child’s perspective on the adult world and on the meaning of life.
Galassia Annika_photo_Cosimo Franz Francavilla
08.10
18:00
Cine Laterale
Future Tradition * Trajal Harrell
USA/Switzerland
video interview
How does an artist experience the dialogue between memory and innovation, between nostalgia for the past and imagination of the future? An intriguing conversation with the French author, director and playwright Caroline Guiela Nguyen, conducted as part of Laterale, the new research project exploring and questioning the international art scene.
Trajal Harrell_photo_Bea Borgers
08.10
20:30
Matías Umpierrez
PLAY
ARGENTINA/SPAIN
theatre/performance
PLAY is a theatrical exploration of hate speech, ways of inhabiting power, and the hell and paradise of consciousness. It is a performance-lecture. An installation. The dismantling of a theatrical society. A circus of abuses. An atlas of resentment. An orchestra of voices, amplified by old cassette players, experiments with ways of surviving, whilst an army of puppets gets lost in the realm of vanity.
PLAY_Matías Umpierrez_PHOTO_Dominik Valvo
09.10
18:00
Zona Franca
Day 1 - Opening!
Switzerland
music & drinks
An unaligned oasis where to imagine the world from scratch. A neutral space where everything is still possible. A pop-up bar by La Soleggiata, with music by Raclette. Because partying is, first and foremost, an exercise of freedom. As the sound of bombs grows louder outside, we turn up the volume of the party, as a political act. Will you come and dance with us?
ZONA FRANCA 2025_photo Giulia Imperatori
09.10
20:30
Sergi Casero Nieto
No pares (sigue, sigue)
SPAIN
theatre/performance
How come we never stop? A modern Sisyphus takes on capitalism on his stationary bike. This ironic and invigorating performance is an invitation to imagine ways out of the cycle of productivity, also through poetic and utopian strategies, in which rampant individualism is replaced by collective and liberating solutions.
Sergi Casero Nieto_No pares Sigue Sigue_photo_Roberta Segata
10.10
18:00
11.10
11:00
Zona Franca
Saturday—Sunday
Switzerland
music, drinks & labs
Saturday kicks off with a chill-out session, followed by Angè, an electronic music project based between Lausanne and Zurich. Afterwards, an extended DJ set by Raclette. On Sunday a lively wake-up call with the Ticino-based dancer and choreographer Bianca Berger.
ZONA FRANCA 2025_photo Giulia Imperatori
10.10
18:00
Kamal Aljafari
A Fidai Film
PALESTINE
film
In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut; it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive, which contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, and through a unique combination of documentary and experimental techniques, A Fidai Film aims to create a counter-narrative to this loss.
Fidai-Still-1
10.10
20:30
Rabih Mroué/Lina Majdalanie
Four Walls and a Roof
LEBANON/GERMANY
theatre
Brecht, censorship, democracy, and exile today. Based on their own voluntary emigration from Beirut to Berlin, the artistic duo use a playful approach to examine the misfortunes of a great idealist and articulate political reflections on the present, making us question how free and open our reality is.
Four walls and a Roof, Rabih Mroué, Lina Majdalanie_photo_Chistophe Berlet
10.10
22:00
Ivreatronic* Foresta/ Leonar/ Enea Pascal DJ SET
Live set feat Raclette
Italy
music
Ivreatronic is not just a label or a party, it is an artistic community that has redefined the imagination of Italian club culture, transforming the province, Ivrea, into a laboratory for sonic and social experimentation. The collective lands at FIT 2026 for an unpredictable live set in the frame of Zona Franca.
Screenshot 2026-07-22 alle 14.26.52
11.10
20:30
Mª del Mar Suárez (La Chachi)
Los inescalables Alpes, buscando a Currito
Spain
performance/dance
Breaking, intense, hypnotic, masterful, visceral are some of the adjectives that the show has garnered wherever it has been presented. The Andalusian choreographer enchants the audience with her intense and deeply personal style of flamenco that honours tradition whilst introducing elements of krump and a punk sensibility.
Screenshot