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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 number of sights and sensations: the sinister cold shrouding the ultra-touristic Potsdamer Platz where th...
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 and staff for being with us every step of the way."
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 discovers hidden stories about her mother’s hopes and fears as bombs ravaged Beirut during the Lebanese c...
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 two generations of mothers and daughters. Set in present-day Canada and 1980s Lebanon, Berlin compet...