Joanna Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige: Memory Box

This year’s Spring Programme at Cinema Akil features a series of award-winning films.

Memory Box, directed by Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige. On Christmas Eve, Maia receives a box containing the journals, tapes and photos that she had entrusted to her best friend when she left Lebanon. She refuses to open this Pandora’s box but Alex, who is stuck at home, cannot resist the temptation to secretly go through the box of her mother’s memories. In doing so, she unveils a troubled adolescence spent in wartime Beirut.