Tuesday 9 June, 18:00

Special Screening: La Muraille

Callisto Mc Nulty’s La Muraille follows a frontier in southeastern Spain where the boundary between a ‘healthy’ world and one marked by disease shapes memory and belonging. Moving between past and present, the film meets witnesses and traces around the Fontilles sanatorium, once a sanctuary for people with leprosy. Poetic and intimate, the documentary blends archival echoes and close observation to examine exclusion, care and the long shadows illness casts on landscape and human connection. Presented alongside Forough Farrokhzad’s short La maison est noire.

Special screening with director Callisto Mc Nulty.

Rue du Général-DUFOUR 16,
1204 Genève
Photo Credit: DR
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Photo Credit: DR

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