CINEMIA
2026 · 2m
Directed by Sofiane Morhtassi
Genres: drama, romance, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
After meeting a neighbour's young boyfriend, Jeanne falls completely under his spell; every morning she searches the atrium of her building for the traces of his passage, until the encounter becomes an obsession with his image alone.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's a portrait of desire collapsing into pure hallucination, and Morhtassi refuses to sentimentalize the psychosis—but honestly, the sci-fi angle feels like window dressing on what's fundamentally a conventional obsession narrative, and that bugs me.
A formally precise study of longing that sits comfortably within the lineage of contemplative European cinema, though the tonal balance between melancholia and the sci-fi registers occasionally feels unresolved.
The choice to have Jeanne hunt for *traces* rather than the man himself—searching architecture instead of pursuing him directly—transforms a generic infatuation premise into something about phantom memory and the architecture of desire; that specificity of approach is what makes two minutes feel inhabited.