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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 freely over feature films, docs, installations and performance art. Though Memory Box shows the sophisti...

‘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 their artistic approach, it is also one of the most accessible of their films, thanks to a winning ca...

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. Alqadi's film begins The inspiration for it the public rape of Alqadi's 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. As she notes in her director’s statement, her hope for the film is to “open a wider debate...

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