Du Geste.
2026 · 2m
Directed by Joyo Hari Bossard
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
Brayan is selected for a dance audition; finding inspiration from a poster in the street, he perfects his gestures in daily life, sometimes at the wrong moments - but when another candidate appears before the jury, Brayan's reaction is a middle finger, the very gesture he has been working on for days.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A two-minute short that commits fully to its absurdist premise—the joke isn't *that* he gives the finger, it's that he's spent days perfecting it as high art, only for impulse to weaponize his own discipline. Most scouts would see this as a gag; Felix sees a subversive commentary on the tyranny of self-improvement.
Bossard demonstrates considerable formal control in the economy of the piece, building a clear three-act structure (obsession, mastery, betrayal) within the tightest frame; the poster-as-muse callback feels like a deliberate nod to the surrealist tradition of found-object inspiration.
The brilliance here lives in a single choice: playing Brayan's gesture-perfecting sequences straight and almost meditative, so when the middle finger lands, it's not a punchline but an inevitability—the cut from discipline to impulse is where the whole film actually happens.