Beautiful Burger
2026 · 2m
Directed by Bob Getter, Marten Ingle
A man gives his last hamburger to a mystical homeless man.
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A man feeds a vagrant—sounds like Oscar-bait pablum, but the mythic framing actually *works* against sentimentality, which is the only reason this isn't another forgettable charity fable.
The tender-to-mythic tonal register sits comfortably within a lineage of contemporary fabulist cinema, though at two minutes the formal argument feels more sketch than statement.
Two minutes to embed genuine magic into a hamburger exchange means every frame is doing labor—and something about how Getter and Ingle structure that economy, that restraint, transforms what could've been maudlin into something that *lands*.