Geneva International Jewish Film Festival (GIJFF)

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.

Robina Rose’s nocturnal portrait unfolds through the watchful eye of a hotel receptionist as she witnesses the night’s circulation of eccentric guests. Shot with an avant-garde, dreamlike economy, the film stretches time and blurs reality and imagination across intertwined narratives. Featuring Pamela Rooke (Jordan) and figures from London’s counterculture, NIGHTSHIFT captures the raw textures of the early 1980s art scene, mixing punk energy with intimate, static frames that emphasize liminality, memory, and the strange poetry of the night.

Screening presented by filmmaker Callisto McNulty, in collaboration with #cine.

In English with French subtitles.

Danielle Arbid’s Seuls les rebelles observes an unexpected love in a Beirut on the brink. Her intimate, observational approach frames Suzanne, a sixty-something Lebanese widow of Palestinian origin, and Osmane, a young Sudanese undocumented migrant, as their fragile bond ignites amid social collapse. The film probes migration, age, identity and solidarity through textured close-ups, saturated color passages and a patient rhythm. Presented at the Berlin Festival 2026, it balances political urgency with moments of tenderness, resisting dehumanization while honoring human agency.

In the presence of director Danielle Arbid.

Arabic with French subtitles.

This event is organized in partnership with the Geneva-based association CHANCE International, which actively supports the treatment of children with cancer, primarily in Lebanon, as well as targeted research projects, particularly on the genetic causes of cancer. Every donation gives a child with cancer a chance of recovery.