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Lebanese filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige explore the importance of personal and historical memory in a drama bouncing between Montreal and Beirut. By Deborah Young The tragedy of the ...

A daughter uncovers her mother's wartime scrapbooks in this mixed-media dance of memory set between present-day Montreal and 1980s Beirut. Though it feels like the phrase “generational trauma” is ...

Perhaps it’s because “Memory Box” is freely adapted from co-director Joana Hadjithomas’ teenage letters and diaries that this is the most affectingly Proustian of the filmmaker’s works made with ...

Why I Keep Every Single School Paper My Kids Bring Home You know that feeling when your kid hands you a crumpled piece of ...

In this ambitious, intergenerational drama, a teenager in Montreal discovers her mother’s diaries and photos from her adolescent years in a war-torn Lebanon. By Devika Girish When you purchase a ...

Whether it’s your baby’s first pacifier or your five-year-old’s kindergarten art project, there are just some things that you know you want to hang on to. Because your kids grow up so fast, you want ...

KABUL — It was an evening like many others. Faisal teased his mother, Adila, before leaving for the Kabul pharmacy where he worked to earn enough money to pay for math and English classes. The 17-year ...

EXCLUSIVE: Amid a wave of programming to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11, MSNBC Films and Peacock have slated the documentary feature Memory Box: Echoes of 9/11, which revisits eyewitness accounts ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — A brother’s sandals. A flag of Afghanistan. A daughter’s favorite toy. These are some of the remnants of lives lost to violence. The prosaic belongings, collected in handmade ...