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
civil