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2026 · 2m
Directed by Alexandre Villard
Tones: contemplative, provocative
In the near future, beauty has become an essential criterion of success; at a medical appointment, a young couple discovers the face their future daughter could have, and faced with this revelation — and the obsession with perfection — a choice imposes itself, though another path remains possible.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The premise wants to provoke—eugenics anxiety, consumer reproductive tech—but it plays it straight and earnest, which means it lands exactly where you'd expect it to. Villard's not interested in the subversive angle; he's interested in being *right* about the future, which is the opposite of what sci-fi should do.
A formally composed meditation on choice and desire that inherits the lineage of speculative bioethics cinema (Gattaca, Brave New World) while maintaining its own restraint; the two-minute constraint forces a precision in editing and performance that feels deliberate rather than truncated, situating the moral question in visual language rather than exposition.
The coup here is the sound design—the clinical hum of the medical office against the couple's silence, that specific acoustic choice that makes the ultrasound moment feel less like wonder and more like transaction, which reframes the entire moral weight without a word being spoken.