Memory Box (2021)
- Directed by
- Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France, Canada, Qatar, Lebanon
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rated
- 15
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 30 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A mother in present-day Montreal receives a package containing her teenage diaries, letters, and cassettes from 1980s Beirut. Confronting her past, she reconnects with her rebellious youth and the traumas of the Lebanese civil war, while her daughter uncovers secrets about her family's history.
intimatecontemplativemelancholicpersonalnostalgiclayeredevocative
What happens
Memory Box is a 2021 drama film written and directed by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. The film stars Rim Turki, Manal Issa and Paloma Vauthier. The film had its worldwide premiere at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival in March 2021. Memory Box is the first Lebanese film to be nominated, among 15 films, for the Berlinale Competition in four decades. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
Copilot (2021)
The Other Side of November (2016)
Capernaum (2018)
The Insult (2017)
Costa Brava, Lebanon (2021)
Broken Keys (2021)
Heaven Sent (2016)
Manara (2019)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.