If Sundance has taught us something, it’s {that a} proficient filmmaker can flip one adolescent summer season right into a resonant murals. In simply the final ten years, there was Luca Guadagnino’s “Name Me by Your Identify,” Eliza Hittman’s “Seashore Rats,” and Jeremiah Zagar’s “We the Animals.” This yr, along with her debut characteristic “Maintain Onto Me,” the Cypriot author and director Myrsini Aristidou presents a singular tackle sun-soaked coming-of-age cinema by specializing in an 11-year-old woman and her absent father.

