A cornerstone of Arab cinema, Georges Nasser’s ‘Ila Ayn?’ (‘Where To?’) was the first Lebanese film to compete at Cannes. Set in a mountain village, it tells the timeless story of migration’s human cost. A father abandons his family for the promise of Brazil, an imagined Eldorado, leaving his wife to raise their sons alone.

Twenty years later, as the younger son prepares to repeat the journey, a defeated stranger returns, a ghost haunting the home he left behind. A powerful, neorealist chronicle of fractured dreams and the cyclical trauma of diaspora, the film deconstructs the myth of a better life abroad, poignantly questioning the price of departure and the very meaning of return.