Belle Belle Belle
2026 · 2m
Directed by Alice Lobel
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic
The casting notice specifies 'very beautiful woman'; Alice wonders whether she can answer it.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Finally, a film that turns the casting-call premise inside out—instead of playing it for easy satire, Lobel lets the absurdity breathe and actually *think* about complicity, which is way more subversive than snark.
A deceptively simple construction that sits in conversation with decades of feminist cinema and performance art, where the 2-minute constraint becomes a formal argument about what we're allowed to show and withhold.
The genius move here is Lobel's decision to make this about *her* internal calculation rather than the obvious external mockery—one moment of honest hesitation does more work than any punchline could, and that's the whole film.