CRÈME ET CHÂTIMENT
2026 · 2m
Directed by Arié Elmaleh
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, satire
Tones: contemplative, dark, provocative
Elisa is summoned by the headmaster with her parents; she has excellent grades, but that is no longer enough — she must submit to the new norms imposed by her school.
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A two-minute guillotine drop—what starts as standard institutional critique pivots into something genuinely unsettling about conformity as violence, and the fact that it's wrapped in the veneer of a guidance counselor meeting makes it properly subversive rather than preachy.
Elmaleh channels the formal severity of Haneke or Kechiche here, letting the institutional geometry of the space and the careful staging of power dynamics do the heavy lifting; it's a short that understands how restraint becomes its own provocation.
The single choice that makes this work is the decision to keep the camera static and let the adults' language do the colonizing—no manipulation, just the horror of bureaucratic language creeping into a teenager's future, which costs nothing but attention.