Remember to Blink: dir Austėja Urbaitė (2021)

A French couple have adopted two children from Lithuania; they enlist the help of Gabriele, a young Lithuanian student, to serve as an interpreter and nanny. When the children arrive, the idyllic façade of the new family arrangement buckles under the weight of underlying tensions and cultural clashes. Hints of the couple’s unfamiliarity with their adopted children’s origins emerge, leading to conflicts and misunderstandings, and unearths the complexities of parenthood and culture …

Screens as part of the Cultural Foundation’s week-long European Film Festival Abu Dhabi 2025. The films are given individual entries in the Agenda, but they’re also all listed here.