FAIREST
2026 · 2m
Directed by Célestin Langrenez
Genres: dark comedy, drama, sci-fi
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, surreal
After a difficult breakup, Ava decides to use the Recompill, the miracle pill from Fairest Cosmetics, which claims to change the genetic code of whoever takes it in real time, via a simple mobile app.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A breakup-turned-genetic-roulette via cosmetics app is exactly the kind of premise that makes you lean back and laugh at how sick it is — sci-fi body horror weaponized as millennial self-help, and Langrenez commits to the bit without winking. This is the kind of short that gets rejected by the earnest festivals and thrives everywhere else.
Langrenez positions this within a lineage of speculative satire that traces back through cautionary tech narratives, though the two-minute runtime asks the film to compress what could sustain deeper formal interrogation into a single provocative gesture. The restraint is admirable; whether that restraint amounts to craft or mere premise remains the question.
The decision to let the app interface do the storytelling work — that tactile, mundane scrolling through existential self-destruction — is what transforms this from dark comedy concept into something that actually lands; it's a $0 visual choice that does all the heavy lifting.