"C'est beau la jeunesse"
2026 · 2m
Directed by Benjamin Chojecki
Genres: crime, dark comedy, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
For Jérémie and his gang, burying a body in the middle of the forest is a routine chore, dispatched with chilling insouciance. On an isolated path, an old man stumbles upon them and, moved, sees not murderers but the reflection of his own youth — blinded by nostalgia, he ignores that death awaits him at the edge of the pit.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A two-minute film that flips the serial killer narrative on its head by making the real horror the old man's delusion—that's the kind of premise that makes you sit up. Chojecki doesn't let you feel safe in any role here, and that refusal to give the audience a moral foothold is exactly the subversive move most scouts would shy away from.
The film's restraint in its visual language and its deliberate withholding of spectacle situates it within a lineage of European art cinema that trusts the viewer's discomfort; the editing rhythms that underscore the gap between the gang's mundane efficiency and the old man's romanticized gaze show considerable formal intelligence.
What makes this work is the single choice to shoot the burial from the old man's perspective—that framing decision transforms what could be straightforward crime-film mechanics into something introspective and tragic, and in two minutes, on what clearly isn't a bloated budget, that perspective shift does all the heavy lifting.