In this winner of the Cannes ’23 Golden Eye, Oscar-nominated Tunisian writer-director Kaouther Ben Hania (The Man Who Sold His Skin, Beauty and the Dogs) blends documentary and drama to explore the case of two missing sisters in Tunisia, and the family that mourns them.

Olfa Hamrouni’s two eldest daughters — Ghofrane and Rahma — disappeared in 2015 (aged 16 and 15), leaving her and her two youngest daughters, Eya and Tayssir (then aged 10 and 12), heartbroken and sleepless. In an effort to piece together their layered story, Ben Hania invites two professional actors — Ichraq Matar and Nour Karoui — to step into the places of the missing sisters. And when the memories they revisit together become too difficult, acclaimed Tunisian-Egyptian actor Hend Sabri (Noura’s Dream, TIFF ’19) takes on the role of Olfa. The result is part observational wonder and part performance masterclass, as Olfa and her daughters recreate an intimate tableau to negotiate their own unique perspectives on the trauma they share,