Since 2017, Emilie Bujès is the Artistic director of Visions du Réel, International Film Festival Nyon, and was previously a member of its selection committee since 2012. She is a program advisor for Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and an expert for the Swiss fund visions sud est. She has been the deputy artistic director of La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival (2014–2016) and a member of the Image/mouvement commission of the CNAP (French National Centre for Visual Arts).

Before this, she was a curator at the Geneva Contemporary Art Center (2010–2014) and has contributed to the program of film festivals and art institutions such as the Forum Expanded–Berlinale, the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) Vilnius, the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, the Transmediale (Berlin), or the artist/curator-run space Forde (Geneva). She has been teaching at the Geneva School of Art and Design and Bern University of the Arts, and received a Swiss Art Award for curators in 2014.