Libyan filmmaker Jihan K explores her father’s mysterious disappearance under Qaddafi’s regime, intertwining a personal story with the nation’s complex history.

Romania, 1989. The twilight of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s dictatorship. In a small, isolated town, Maria, a ten-year-old girl, is the last person to witness her sister disappearing before her eyes. Torn apart by the loss, she tries to make sense of a new, terrifying reality.

The Russian director of Mother and Son revisits the major world events that took place between 1957 and 1991 in this documentary built from his diaries and archival footage.

Jaume Claret Muxart’s debut feature turns a family cycling trip along the Danube into a tender, melancholic portrait of adolescence. In Orizzonti.

Caroline Deruas Peano’s film begins as a nostalgic pop comedy about two inseparable girls in 1990s France, only to transform into a moving exploration of grief, memory and the fragile bridge between adolescence and adulthood.

A poignant love story that spans decades, this Lebanese film explores how romance endures amid personal change and societal upheaval. In Venice Days.

In this road movie directed by Shahad Ameen, a grandmother and her granddaughter embark on a perilous journey across Saudi Arabia in search of another granddaughter who suddenly vanished during a pilgrimage to Mecca.

A Slovak drama from director Tereza Nvotová, «Father» follows a couple through the aftermath of an unimaginable tragedy.

Told through the eyes of an eight-year-old, ‘Short Summer’ captures the fragile mix of play, family discord, and the distant but looming specter of war in the Russian countryside.

Claire Simon’s documentary enters French classrooms to observe how teenagers read and debate the works of Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux, finding echoes of their own lives in her brutally honest prose.