ÇA POUSSE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Aada (Abderrahim Hajji)
Genres: dark comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, darkly comic
A man with an impeccable moustache tends his vegetable garden with surgical precision; between radiant selfies and maniacal care of his vegetables, order reigns — but in this world of image, beauty is only a varnish.
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A two-minute takedown of Instagram-era masculinity wrapped in a moustache — the premise is so perfectly absurd (surgical vegetable care as performance anxiety) that it shouldn't work, but Aada commits to the bit with the kind of deadpan conviction that makes satire actually sting.
The film's formal restraint is what sells it; there's a lineage here to Vigo and Buñuel's everyday surrealism, and the precision of the editing mirrors the protagonist's obsession, making form inseparable from content.
That single choice to film the selfies with the same clinical intensity as the garden work — treating vanity and horticulture as identical rituals — is the decision that elevates what could've been a lazy Instagram joke into something genuinely uncomfortable.