Anaïs Emery is the new general and artistic director of the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) and Geneva Digital Market. She was director of Utopiales in Nantes (France) and programmer of an independent cinema. Co-founder of the NIFFF, she was its artistic director from 2006 to 2020, bringing the festival to international recognition. In 2017, she completed a DAS in communication and web expertise at the UNIGE, in addition to her studies in cinema.

Commited to the next generation of Swiss cinema and innovation, she officiates at Cinéforom, the Swiss Film Academy, and launches the FutureStoryWorlds@CERN workshop, which aims to consolidate futuristic narrative universes linked to the evolution of science and technology and developed for immersive media (video games & XR).