Dans tes yeux
2026 · 2m · France
Directed by Thomas Arnaud
Genres: drama, historical, war
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Days after the invasion of Poland, a young woman named Ewa is deported to the concentration camps. Born from the director's encounter with performer Ewunia — whose own grandmother was deported to Ravensbrück — the film looks straight into the eyes of history's victims, honoring the extraordinary courage of countless women with a single message: never again.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's a respectful Holocaust remembrance film—which means it's exactly what you'd expect, which means Felix is probably not picking it; the premise is historically urgent but formally conventional, and there's nothing here that makes you say 'wait, WHAT?' except maybe that two minutes is somehow enough time to say anything at all.
Arnaud's directorial choice to meet Ewunia's gaze—to let the camera honor the specific, irreplaceable personhood of a deportee rather than abstracts of suffering—positions this within a lineage of witness cinema that demands formal restraint; the tenderness and brevity become a curatorial statement about how to approach historical trauma without consuming it.
The entire film hinges on one decision: to shoot into the eyes of a performer connected to actual history, trusting that proximity and presence matter more than narrative machinery—and on a $0 budget that choice becomes everything, collapsing the distance between documentation and performance into something that feels like testimony.