A film released on Netflix in December tells the coming-of-age story of a Palestinian girl amid the violent tumult of 1948 the year Israel declared independence and has drawn fierce criticism from some Israelis online and in government, who say the movie distorts history and should be boycotted along with the streaming service.
"I cannot work on a project unless I’m fully engaged with it. My thoughts, my body, my feelings, my knowledge and memory it all revolves around the work that I do."
This is part one of our English translation of an extensive interview with Syrian actor Hala Omran. Read this interview in its original Arabic here. Hala Omran is a theater artist, actress and singer living in France. She graduated from the storied Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus in 1994, afterward continuing her […]
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
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