Jihan

Genre: Documentary

Country: Libya/United States

Year: 2025

Length: 88’

Language: English, Arabic, and French. VOSE and VOSEus.

Directed by: Jihan

Written by: Jihan

Cinematographers: Jihan, Micah Walker, Mike McLaughlin (C)

Editors: Alessandro Dordoni, Chloë Lambourne, Nicole Hálová

Music: Bisan Toron, Didier Monge, Simoune Giuliani, Tiago Correia-Paulo

Sound: Yvan Brunner, Ediz Kiracar, Flo Steinbach, Nikola Medic

Producers: Jihan, Valentina Castellani-Quinn

Production: Desert Power, in association with Quiet and coproduced with Lika Film & Television AB, Siam Films

Synopsis

In 1993, Mansur Rashid Kikhia, a former Libyan diplomat and peaceful opponent to Qadaffi vanished in Cairo. His daughter Jihan unravels his disappearance and pieces together her mother’s 19-year search to find him. Without any memory of her father, through encounters with family, her father’s colleagues, and historical archives, Jihan’s search for the truth evolves into a deeper curiosity, drawing her closer to her father while trying to reconcile with her Libyan identity.