DIRTY ZOMBIE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Matthieu Vingataramin
Genres: dark comedy, horror, romance
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
When a couple watches their own wedding film, it emerges that Anna is a zombie and Dimitri loves her without reserve; between uneasy guests, misplaced compliments and a dubious aperitif, everyone wonders what beauty really is, in an absurd horror comedy where blind love turns disgust into admiration.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A zombie bride subverting the entire romantic apparatus in two minutes—this is exactly the kind of premise that makes everyone else uncomfortable while Felix nods approvingly. The absurdist move of asking what 'beauty really is' while guests squirm isn't clever enough to be smug; it's genuinely warped.
Vingataramin positions this squarely in the lineage of Buñuel's wedding-as-social-theater, with formal restraint that lets the grotesque do its own work rather than winking at the audience. The control required to hold absurdism and tenderness in the same frame for two minutes speaks to a filmmaker aware of what genre traditions he's inheriting.
The entire film hinges on the single choice to play Dimitri's love as completely sincere—no irony, no performance—which makes the disgust-to-admiration arc feel earned rather than conceptual. That emotional commitment on a micro-budget is what separates a premise from a film.