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Not a poem this time ... - ... but a post about the healing and comforting power of Story.A friend recently asked me, as a storyteller, to help two young children she knew who had suffered painful losses in this pandemic. How...

How Arab films triumphed at the first online Berlinale Covid-19 may have forced this major festival to go virtual but this year’s Berlinale was its best, showcasing the largest collection from the Middle East in its history Bear trophies on display for the 2021 Berlinale (AFP) By Published date: 16 March 2021 12:29 UTC | Last update: 2 weeks 1 day ago Regulars at the Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale) in recent years are used to a numbe...

The Torch Theatre lit up a full year since its doors were closed The Torch Theatre in Milford Haven has been lit up to remember the day - exactly one year ago - when it closed its doors due to Covid-19. The theatre has been lit in the colours of the rainbow, as have numerous other theatres across Wales, as a sign of hope in the troubled times. A theatre spokesperson said: "We want to say thank you to our audiences, artists, communities, young people, associate artists, funders, trustees a...

Memory Box stars Rim Turki, Manal Issa, Paloma Vauthier and Clemence Sabbagh, and is set over Christmas in Montreal. A surprise delivery of notebooks, tapes and photos that single mother Maia (Turki) sent to her best friend Liza in the 1980s is quickly consigned to be stored unopened in the basement, but Maia’s curious daughter Alex (Vauthier) begins looking through the keepsakes, which give her a window into her mother’s adolescence The film jumps between past and present as Alex discover...

How Memory Box Directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige Mined Their Own Past Ben Croll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail When directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige uncovered a trove of photographs, journals and audio recordings they had made while growing up in Beirut of the 1980s, they knew these personal archives would fuel their next film. Acclaimed artists and documentarians, the creative duo opted to develop these archives into a narrative feature that tells the story of tw...

A warm, dense tale about women. TWITTER Lebanese filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige explore the importance of personal and historical memory in a drama bouncing between Montreal and Beirut. The tragedy of the Lebanese civil war extends far beyond the 1980s and into the third generation of a family resettled in Canada in the affecting drama Memory Box. It marks the first film in nine years from the award-winning team Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, whose work has ranged freel...

‘Memory Box’: Film Review | Berlin 2021 Jon Frosch MEMORY BOX The tragedy of the Lebanese civil war extends far beyond the 1980s and into the third generation of a family resettled in Canada in the affecting drama Memory Box. It marks the first film in nine years from the award-winning team Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, whose work has ranged freely over feature films, docs, installations and performance art. Though Memory Box shows the sophisticated modernity of t...

01/03/2021 - BERLINALE 2021: Shown in the Golden Bear competition, this film puts paid to Cher's claim that you can't turn back time

and her film a combative study of sexual assault in contemporary Egypt and an examination of the self. Alqadis film begins The inspiration for it the public rape of Alqadis friend on the night an explosion of violence against women rippled through Cairo’s Tahrir Square. As the Palestinian-raised Alqadi begins to document protests and anti-rape patrols in the city, she also turns the camera on herself after she becomes pregnant, exploring what it means to be a woman in the Middle East...

17/02/2021 - A co-production uniting France, Lebanon and Canada, this film by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige dazzles up front in the sales agent’s top-notch line-up