Allegria
2026 · 2m
Directed by Katia Karenine
Genres: drama, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
Confined in a psychiatric hospital, Mona faces a psychiatrist who crushes her with his authority; through her imagination she embodies nature, beauty and inner freedom — and asks who is really mad.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The psychiatric institution-as-oppression premise is well-trodden territory, and the fantasy-escape mechanism feels like a safety net rather than genuine subversion — Karenine sketches the rebellion but doesn't commit to any real conceptual weirdness.
A formally aware piece that understands the lineage of surrealist cinema and psychiatric critique, with considered visual language; the two-minute constraint forces compression that occasionally feels more like constraint than choice.
That moment when Mona's imagination physically inhabits her — the specific editing or performance beat that fractures the hospital's logic — is where this lives or dies, and Karenine seems to know exactly which cut makes the psychiatrist's authority crumble.