Ce qui nous entoure
2026 · 2m
Directed by Esteban Adisson
Genres: drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, tender
Alex stands before the cathedral, headphones on, immersed in magnificent music that makes the light, stones and silence around him more beautiful; Yanis joins him, then Nathan, and all three realise how we pass by the beauty of the everyday without noticing it.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's a nice idea—shared epiphany through headphones—but the execution is almost aggressively sincere; there's no friction, no angle that makes you uncomfortable with the sentiment, which means it lands exactly where you expect it to.
A formally elegant essay on attention and collective awakening, structured around a classical music crescendo that mirrors the accumulation of witnesses; Adisson positions himself squarely in the lineage of contemplative cinema—Koreeda, maybe Tsai—with real discipline in his visual rhythm.
The singular choice here is muting the cathedral entirely until the headphones come off—that moment of sonic rupture when three private listening experiences collide with silence is what justifies the whole premise and does more with a 2-minute runtime than most shorts manage in 15.