Dans les yeux de...
2026 · 2m
Directed by Les élèves d'atelier Cinéma
Genres: documentary, essay film
Tones: contemplative, tender
Ten primary-school pupils each give their own definition of beauty — for there are as many beauties as there are humans on Earth.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A film about children defining beauty sounds like treacly consensus-building, but ten separate definitions refusing to cohere into a single answer is genuinely subversive — it's anti-TED-talk in the best way.
The essay film tradition of soliciting direct address from non-actors reaches its most elegant form here: a two-minute meditation on plurality that knows exactly what it owes to Varda and Marker, executed with formal restraint.
The decision to let elementary-school voices simply *be* — unscripted, overlapping, contradictory — without ironic framing or manipulation is what makes this work; it's the absence of a clever edit that becomes the whole point.