In 'Memory Box,' a Lebanese immigrant living in Quebec, Canada, discovers a memory box filled with cassette tapes, old photographs, and a diary, which leads her to uncover repressed memories from her past. As she listens to the recorded voices and reads the diary, she revisits her painful memories, including the death of her brother and the bombing of her city during the Lebanese civil war. The story explores themes of love, loss, and the fear of death, as well as the power of memories in shaping one's identity.
In 1982, a young girl living in Beirut, Lebanon, faces the challenges and traumas of war as she navigates through her daily life. With the backdrop of the Israel-Lebanon conflict, she experiences friendship, betrayal, and the struggle to maintain hope in a time of chaos and uncertainty.
Lina, a young girl in war-torn Beirut, finds an ally and friend in Sihan, her domineering aunt's maid. Sihan shows Lina what her life could be like, but tests the girl's limits when she asks her to help plot her escape from the city.
The film revolves around three Arab girls who travel to France, in search of the freedom they lost in the Arab countries from which they came, each in their own way.
Ge.hen'nah is a powerful drama that explores the traumatic experiences of a Lebanese family living in a third-world country. The film delves into the disturbing story of a religious patriarch who harbors incestuous desires towards his adult daughter, leading to a series of devastating events. It sheds light on themes of domestic violence, human rights, and the complexities of family dynamics.
One of the most popular Lebanese films of the late 1990s, Around the Pink House is a story that explores the changing urban landscape of Beirut after the Civil War. La maison rose (the pink house) is an old mansion in Beirut where the Nawfal family found shelter during the Civil War. Unfortunately for them, their immediate environment is rapidly changing, as many of the old shell-ridden buildings are being torn down and replaced by new construction projects. When Mattar, the owner of the pink house, decides to sell it to make room for a large commercial centre, the residents of the neighbourhood become divided between the shopkeepers and businessmen in favour of a different kind of modernity.
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