Recap

Set in a quiet Iranian field, Leaving follows a dialogue between a house and a mountain as a family departs. It is a poetic meditation on migration and memory.

In northern Iran, this docu-fiction captures a family's week-long reunion from arrival to farewell. Showcasing tradition, daily life, and music into a quiet portrait of memory, connection, and time's gentle passing.

An elderly man living with dementia begins to lose his sense of time, place, and identity, while his son quietly stays by his side. Through small moments and fading memories, their relationship is tested in ways neither can fully understand.

A teenage girl finds her true self drifting away from the people around her. As the story progresses, through peer pressure and "harmless" jokes, she realizes she is fading away from being a passionate guitarist to someone that she doesn't want to be.