BENTI (ma fille)
2026 · 2m
Directed by Soraya Rams
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, family
Tones: contemplative, mythic, tender
Raya wants a tattoo, but her mother forbids it in the name of the sacred and of honour — until the story engraved on her grandmother's skin speaks louder than the prohibition.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Everyone expects the generational conflict story to break toward the daughter's liberation, but Rams threads something weirder—the sacred object itself becomes the argument, not the punchline. It's a family drama that refuses to mock its own mythology, which means it actually *has* mythology.
Rams situates this squarely in the lineage of intergenerational feminist cinema while respecting the grandmother's embodied knowledge as text rather than relic—the formal restraint of the 2-minute form becomes the film's greatest strength, each image weighted with tradition and its careful undoing.
The entire architecture hinges on one choice: treating the grandmother's tattooed skin as a speaking character, an archive. Watch how Rams lets the camera rest on the marks themselves rather than the bodies debating them—that single formal decision transforms a permission story into something about whose stories get written where.