Film Screening 4th November, 2022

Poster for Lebanese Film Festival: Memory Box

Lebanese Film Festival: Memory Box 

7:30 PM, 4th November, 2022

  • TBC
  • 102 mins
  • 2021
  • Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
  • Rim Turki, Manal Issa, Paloma Vauthier, Clémence Sabbagh

A celebration of Lebanese arts and culture through film, this year's 10th anniversary edition of the Lebanese Film Festival features three FREE screenings open to ANUFG members and the public! Find out more at www.lff.org.au

Maia (Rim Turki), a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex (Paloma Vauthier). On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: a box containing notebooks, tapes, and photos that Maia sent to her best friend from 1980s 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.