Memory Box (NC) [F-Rated]

101 minutes - Lebanon / Canada / France / Qatar - Subtitles - Dir: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
Starring: Manal Issa, Jade Charbonneau and Reem Khoury
 
Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: notebooks, tapes, and photos Maia sent to her best friend from 1980’s Beirut.
 
Maia refuses to open the box or confront its memories, but Alex secretly begins diving into it. Between fantasy and reality, Alex enters the world of her mother’s tumultuous, passionate adolescence during the Lebanese civil war, unlocking mysteries of a hidden past.
 
“Exquisitely crafted...contains compassion, curiosity and joyful invention” Sight & Sound