September 29 – October 4, 2025
The Nice Cinéroman Festival has become the unmissable gathering for lovers of literature and cinema. Two genres that complement rather than oppose each other, like the two faces of Genius watches, the new major partner of this flagship cultural event of the autumn season.
Launched in 2019 to mark the 100th anniversary of Nice’s Victorine Studios, the Cinéroman Festival rewards the best films adapted from novels and unites two art forms that are too often mistakenly seen as rivals. The recent success of The Count of Monte Cristo, adapted from Alexandre Dumas’ work and presented in 2024 at the Cinéroman Festival, proves how perfectly literature and cinema enhance each other.
This 7th edition confirms it: the dialogue between the two genres has never been so fertile and rich in original creations. Dozens of screenings — films in competition, premieres, and cult works — along with a program of meetings and exchanges will shape this friendly festival, where big names of French cinema happily gather under the sun of the Côte d’Azur. Sandrine Kiberlain, President of the jury for the 2025 edition, will have the delicate task of judging the competing films alongside Alice Taglioni, Danièle Thompson, Vassili Schneider, Justine Lévy, Sayyid El Alami, and Pierre Deladonchamps.
The Swiss watchmaker Genius joins the festival’s partners as a major sponsor of the event.
Highlights of the festival: the Genius Prize for Tchéky Karyo
The Genius Prize will be awarded to actor Tchéky Karyo during the festival’s closing ceremony, which happens to fall on his 72nd birthday. This honorary award pays tribute to the career of this remarkable actor, who plays the lead role in the film The Steel Butterfly, a short movie on the theme of time, produced by Genius and set to compete for the Césars.
The disruptive watchmaker Genius: the Swiss watch with two faces, whose story is a novel… and a film full of twists
Launched in 2020, the Swiss brand Genius was born out of a gathering of friends. Both professionals and enthusiasts of watchmaking, they dreamed of paying tribute to the true “genius” of 20th-century watch design: Gérald Genta, the creator of two steel sport-chic watches with integrated bracelets that became icons.
This prolific designer — credited with over 100,000 sketches between 1954 and 2011 — shook up traditional watchmaking at a time of crisis, when Swiss watchmaking was losing ground to Japanese quartz watches. His radical, innovative vision left a lasting mark on contemporary watchmaking.
Adapting watchmaking to create new emotions
Just as adapting a novel for the big screen generates new emotions, the patented “50/50” design of Genius watches (combining two halves of the sport-chic icons from 1972 and 1976) breaks with convention to propose a fresh vision of watchmaking. With their elegant design (featuring an invisible crown), vibrant colors, and eco-responsible materials (the brand uses exclusively lab-grown diamonds that are ecological and ethical), Genius watches are meant to be worn by women and men alike. The brand advocates a delicately disruptive, accessible, and unpretentious watchmaking spirit.
Genius watches: from €840 to €2,490 for women and men
