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This evening at 7.30 p.m., Casa \u00c1rabe<\/strong> in Madrid brings to a close its cycle dedicated to Lebanese cinema with the short film Red Wall,<\/em><\/strong> by Cynthia Sawma,<\/strong> and the feature film Memory Box,<\/em><\/strong> by Joanna Hadjithomas <\/strong>and Khalil Joreige.<\/strong> Screenings in the original version with Spanish subtitles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The short film Red Wall<\/em> tells how, after surviving the explosion in Beirut on 4 August 2020, Khalil and Leila, two lifelong friends from the Sursock Museum, are forced to separate. Before Leila moves to France, Khalil must break her silence and confront her with what she has been hiding for many years. The film triggers questions about identity, love and inheritance in a city where love is lost and souls are imprisoned.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Memory Box<\/em> is a moving film that follows the events that occur when Alex, the daughter and granddaughter of Lebanese immigrants, receives a box of mysterious objects at her home in Canada, which opens the door to an unknown part of her mother’s past. The film is a remembrance of the Lebanese civil war through the personal memories of a teenage girl.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Casa \u00c1rabe de Madrid concludes its cycle dedicated to Lebanese cinema with the short film Red Wall and the feature film Memory Box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leisure","category-movies"],"yoast_head":"\n