CHAIR
2026 · 2m
Directed by Vanina Leroux
Genres: drama, LGBTQ+, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
Fascinated by her flatmate's beauty, a young woman nourishes a silent, devouring admiration; behind the fantasy, humiliation sets in, and from being constantly belittled her obsession tips into a desire for possession — until, that night, everything overturns.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Two minutes to weaponize female desire into something genuinely unsettling—Leroux refuses the safe queer romance beat and instead mines the pathology beneath admiration, which is exactly the kind of subversion most scouts would sand down into palatability.
A disciplined study in psychological claustrophobia that positions itself alongside the intimate-horror lineage of Lynchian character work; the formal restraint and tonal control suggest a filmmaker thinking carefully about what *not* to show.
The pivot from silent fantasist to predator lives entirely in a single performance choice—that moment where admiration curdles into something possessive—and Leroux trusts her actor and her audience enough to let that inversion speak without underlining it.