Memory box

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Genre : Drama
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2021
Format : Feature
Running time : 102 (in minutes)

On Christmas Day in Montreal, Maia and her daughter, Alex, receive a mysterious package from Beirut. It is a collection of notebooks, tapes and photographs - a whole correspondence - that Maia, aged 13 to 18, sent from Beirut to her best friend who had left for Paris to escape the civil war. Maia refuses to confront this past, but Alex delves into it secretly. She discovers, between fantasy and reality, her mother's tumultuous and passionate adolescence in the 1980s and well-kept secrets.



Screenplay: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Gaëlle Macé
Image: Josée Deshaies
Montage :T ina Baz
Performer(s): Rim Turki, Manal Issa, Paloma Vauthier

A film by Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige selected for Cinemed 2021

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