A L' IMAGE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Rima Hazim
Genres: drama, experimental, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
An actress wrongly believes she is only at the service of her character; but when the character must be one particular way, the line between fiction and reality blurs, and she loses herself in a true-false reality.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Finally—a film that doesn't just play with the actor/character boundary, it *weaponizes* it, turning meta-theater into genuine existential horror. Most scouts would call this 'too clever'; I call it the kind of subversive premise that only works if you're willing to let the audience drown in the ambiguity.
Hazim's compression of performance theory into two minutes shows formal intelligence—the collapse of fiction and reality echoes Pirandello and Artaud—but the execution risks collapsing into gimmick rather than earned philosophical weight.
That moment when you can't tell if the actress is performing the character's confusion or *actually* confused—that's the single choice that makes this work, and it's everything; the entire film hinges on that fractional hesitation in her eye.