«Sculpted Souls» by award-winning director Stavros Psyllakis is the portrait of Julien Grivel, a Swiss dentist who arrived in Greece in 1972 with the aim of caring for the teeth of a leper in Athens, at the Agia Varvara hospital. The portrait of the philhellene dentist becomes the cinematic vehicle for a fascinating narrative about the life of the lepers who were exiled to the island of Spinalonga and later to the Agia Varvara hospital. The documentary will be screened in the hall of the Teriad Museum-Library on Sunday, February 15, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. with the presence of the director. The action is being carried out on the initiative of Professor Anastasia Zisi, Director of the Laboratory of Social, Cultural & Digital Documentation, University of the Aegean, in collaboration with the Lesvos Dental Association, the Polion Cultural Association and the Teriad Library Museum in the context of preserving the collective memory of the social exclusion, confinement and social stigma experienced by lepers in the country, with special reference to the forgotten history of Lovohori in Plomari, the leper community in Lesvos during the 19th century. The event will be welcomed by the President of the Department of Sociology, Professor Manos Savvakis, author of the important sociological research The Lepers of Spinalonga (2010).
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Documentary by Stavros Psyllakis "Sculpted Souls" – Screening 15.02.2026 in the hall of the Teriad Museum-Library
February 15, 2026
Hall of the Teriad Museum-Library

