100% MOI
2026 · 2m
Directed by Mikael Etamane
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, surreal, tender
Fleure, a young woman who lacks self-confidence, visits a make-up artist for the first time and embarks on an inner journey through a symbolic world where make-up and its removal merge — toward the realisation that beauty lies in accepting oneself.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The symbolic makeup-as-metaphor angle is treading well-worn coming-of-age ground, and I'm skeptical that a 2-minute runtime can actually earn the 'self-acceptance' epiphany without feeling like a greeting card—though if Etamane commits hard to the surreal side, it might flip into something weirder.
There's a formal elegance to using makeup application and removal as visual rhythm, positioning the film within a lineage of cosmetic-as-transformation narratives that stretches from Vigo to contemporary feminist cinema, and the contemplative pacing suggests a filmmaker aware of the grammar they're working in.
The pivot hinges entirely on what happens in that space between makeup on and makeup off—if Etamane found a specific sound design choice or a single micro-expression from Fleure that collapses the symbolic and the intimate, that's where a modest premise becomes something that actually sticks.