AIMER À TOUT JAMAIS
2026 · 2m
Directed by Joana Iannuzzi, Léia Carron
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
That evening, Lio watches the last film she made with Abby, abandoning herself to each image and each silence, unaware that beyond the screen she is also contemplating the very last trace of their story, in last instants revealing a silent, almost painful beauty - that of things ending without yet knowing they are reaching their end.
Picked by Margot
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Two minutes of someone watching a movie—sounds like the most boring premise imaginable, which is exactly why it works; the real subversion here is that grief doesn't need plot, just the exact right frame around nothing.
A formally exquisite study in negative space: the directors understand that the most devastating cinema happens in the gap between the screen and the watcher, positioning us as witnesses to both image and absence in a lineage stretching from Bresson to contemporary lyric documentary.
The decision to keep the off-screen watching as visually prominent as the film-within-the-film—never cutting away from Lio's face to show us what she's seeing—transforms a two-minute piece into something that turns the viewer's gaze inward, making restraint itself the engine.