Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: notebooks, tapes, and photos Maia sent to her best friend from 1980’s 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.

Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, Hadjithomas lends her own adolescent experiences in wartime 1980s Beirut to a fictional character. The letters and photographs in the film are, in fact, the director’s own.

Lebanon/Canada/France/Qatar
Premiered at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival in 2021

2.36GB | 1h 41m | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/C58983233E26093/Memory.Box.Joana.Hadjithomas.Khalil.Joreige.2021.1080p.mkv
or
Memory.Box.Joana.Hadjithomas.Khalil.Joreige.2021.1080p.mkv

Language(s):French,Arabic,English
Subtitles:English hard coded

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A day in the life of Malek, a young man who suffers from sleep disorders and is obsessed with thoughts of his ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, his overprotective mother struggles with the disappearance of her husband, who was kidnapped more than 15 years ago during the civil war.

SYNOPSIS
Stuck in a traffic jam, Malek catches a fleeting glance of the beautiful Zeina the woman he loves. Tapping text messages into his mobile phone he desesperately tries to get through to her, but she no longer wants to see him. She vanishes into the throng of midday Beirut traffic. The young man has a syndrome which interrupts his breathing during sleep. Whenever he stops moving, he dozes off adding to his disorientation. His mother Claudia has still not accepted his father’s disappearance after 15 years. She stays at home should her husband return, Malek drives around the city alone in his car. Each of them trying to live with a void of lost love. But today may be the “perfect day” to lay their ghosts to rest. Malek is taking his hesitant mother to declare her husband officially dead in the “absence of a body”. And that evening, in a trendy nightclub where the young of Beirut go to dance and forget their troubles, Zeina looks ready to give Malek a second shot at the love he so yearns for.

1.21GB | 1h 28m | 720×392 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0BA3BC982055194/A_Perfect_Day_(Yawmon_akhar),_2005.mkv

Language:Arabic
Subtitles:French

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