À travers leurs regards
2026 · 2m
Directed by Bouchenies Gaël, Osmont Lucie
Genres: documentary, essay film
Tones: contemplative, tender
Through the words, gestures, and gazes of blind children, this documentary explores their relationship to beauty, the body, and the world, inviting us to look differently, beyond the visible.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Everyone expects a disability documentary to pull at your heartstrings—this one flips that script and just *watches*, lets the kids' own language do the philosophical heavy lifting, which is either brilliant subversion or too restrained to matter, and I'm genuinely unsure which.
The essay film tradition of defamiliarizing the visible through sound and gesture finds its truest expression here; the directors understand that documentary rigor means trusting testimony over interpretation, and the two-minute form becomes a deliberate constraint that elevates every formal choice.
The decision to center the children's *words and gazes* rather than external narration or pity is the entire film—it's that commitment to let their perspective be the camera, not the subject of it, that makes two minutes feel like a full reckoning.