La Boîte magique, known as The Magic Box in English, is a film I missed on the film festival circuit last year, that I hope to see on video some day. It's boy actor is Medhi Rebii. The plot summary comes from the Cleveland International Film Festival website.

When a European television network commissions 40-something Tunisian filmmaker Raouf to make a film about his childhood relationship with cinema, it sparks an investigation into his past as well as his present situation. We learn that Raouf's youth in the small town of Kairouan was marked by a culture clash between the strict Islamic moralism of his father and the daringly Western attitudes of his dashing uncle Mansour, a traveling projectionist. Spiced through with delectable North African melodies, this glowingly shot memory piece provides a window on the complexities of life in the Maghreb. The title refers to a vintage hand-held "movie" viewer given to Raouf as a gift from his uncle on the day of his circumcision. Compared by some critics to CINEMA PARADISO, THE MAGIC BOX was Tunisia's submission to the Academy for Best Foreign Film.

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