De l'encre à l'écran
2026 · 2m
Directed by Florian Thoraval, Emma Sneck
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, family
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
At a family meal, the poet Philipe sees his granddaughter Lucie terrorised by cyberbullying and invites her to switch off her phone — in the black screen's reflection she discovers her true beauty, freed from the prison of algorithms.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The phone-screen-as-mirror metaphor is so earnest and on-the-nose it almost loops back to interesting—almost—but it's banking on a premise everyone already agrees with, which means it's not subversive enough to earn the heavy-handedness.
Thoraval and Sneck situate this squarely in a lineage of contemplative family portraiture and slow-cinema coming-of-age work; the formal choice to literalize psychological liberation through reflection suggests real consideration of how image and narrative can mirror each other across a two-minute arc.
The decision to make the black phone screen the actual site of revelation—rather than the conversation with the grandfather—is the hinge that works; everything turns on whether that reflected image lands as genuine self-recognition or manipulation, and that ambiguity feels like the filmmakers' hand.