Youth Without Youth

• Fantasy
• Drama
• Mystery

A Romanian professor of languages confronts a destabilizing reversal of time following a bizarre lightning strike, not as a fantastical wish-fulfillment, but as a deeply unsettling identity crisis that fractures his established life and throws him into a labyrinth of fragmented memories and shifting realities. This isn't a simple quest for eternal youth; it’s a melancholic exploration of the self as it unravels, mirrored by a similarly affected young woman, and complicated by the encroaching horrors of a world slipping into war. Set against the backdrop of pre-war Europe and the Himalayas, the film blends a romantic entanglement born from shared trauma with a haunting, almost dreamlike investigation into the nature of consciousness and historical inevitability. The narrative unfolds with a contemplative, non-linear pace, foregoing easy answers in favor of an emotionally resonant and visually arresting portrait of a man grappling with the terrifying loss of his past and the ambiguity of a reshaped future.