The Lebanese movie Reminiscence Field (دفاتر مايا) is Lebanon’s official entry to the 2023 Oscars for the Finest Worldwide Characteristic Movie.
“With the required help and advertising, this movie will make a brand new achievement for Lebanon,” expressed the Lebanese Caretaker Tradition Minister Mohammad Mortada by way of Twitter.
Directed by the Beirut-born Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Reminiscence Field is a Canadian, Lebanese, and French drama film.
The movie first had its worldwide premiere on the 71st Berlin Worldwide Movie Pageant, the place it was the primary Lebanese movie to be nominated for the Golden Bear prime prize.
Reminiscence Field begins in Montreal the place Alex (Paloma Vauthier) lives together with her mom Maia (Rim Turki) and grandmother Teta (Clemence Sabbagh).
On one Christmas Eve, a field containing notebooks, cassette tapes, and images arrives from France, all memorabilia that Maia despatched from Beirut to her pal Liza in Paris through the Lebanese civil conflict.
Attempting to cover painful recollections and secrets and techniques, the mom and grandmother forbid Alex from trying on the field’s contents.
Nonetheless, she dives in and learns in a collection of flashbacks about her mom’s teenage self, as she acquired obsessive about guys and her appears to be like and the way she partied regardless of the fixed bombings and militia-run checkpoints.
The script is written by Gaëlle Macé, Joana Hadjithomas, and Khalil Joreige, and the forged consists of Rim Turki, Manal Issa, Paloma Vauthier, Clemence Sabbagh, and Hassan Akil, and was produced by Abbout Manufacturing.
Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas, whose most letters and mixtapes featured within the movie are hers, have produced a number of awarded films, comparable to The Lebanese Rocket Society and Khiam, I Need To See, amongst others.
Right here is the trailer:
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