FANE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Louna Vassant
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
After countless banal arguments with her loved ones, a young girl comes home and, out of pride, keeps her distance; happy memories resurface, and driven by the desire to repair her lost bonds she tries to find them again — but it is too late.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A two-minute emotional gut-punch about regret and distance — exactly the kind of intimate, unsentimental portrait of family fracture that most scouts would flatten into cliché, but Vassant refuses easy catharsis and that's what makes it sting.
The formal architecture here is quietly rigorous: memory and present tense braided through editing and sound design that recalls the emotional intelligence of films like *Petite Maman*, situating itself in a lineage of European coming-of-age work that prioritizes restraint over revelation.
What lifts this beyond well-intentioned melancholy is the single choice to let the happy memories surface without narrative explanation — Vassant trusts the visual grammar and the viewer's own experience of family rupture to do the emotional work, and in two minutes that specificity is everything.