BREAK ME
2026 · 2m
Directed by Adib Cheikhi
Genres: dark comedy, drama, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, melancholic, provocative
Narcisse and Daphne inject, sculpt and model themselves endlessly to fill a shared fear: that of not being loved.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Finally—a film that takes the narcissistic body-horror apparatus seriously enough to make it funny, and dark enough to make the funny hurt. Cheikhi's premise doesn't just subvert the love-story; it weaponizes it, and most scouts will miss why that's brilliant.
The surrealist vocabulary here sits in genuine dialogue with body-horror cinema and absurdist drama, though at 2 minutes the formal argument feels somewhat compressed—a richer edit might have earned the melancholy more decisively.
The key move is how Cheikhi lets the sculpting and injection *be* the emotional language instead of illustrating it; that refusal to cut away or psychologize is what transforms a gimmick into something that actually breathes.