FILIA MEA
2026 · 2m
Directed by Florelle Terchoune
Genres: biography, coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, mythic, tender
Anne is a scholar, a mother — and, to some, a witch; seen through a child's eyes, a violent reality is veiled in a new beauty: that of knowledge, courage, transmission and love.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The witch-as-scholar angle *could* subvert the hysteria narrative, but two minutes of mythic softening feels like it's smoothing over the actual subversion—I'm waiting for the film to pick a real fight with its own premise.
Terchoune locates herself in a lineage of feminist biographical cinema that refuses victimhood as its only register, instead finding formal grace in the transmission of knowledge across generations—the compression here is masterful, each image weighted with inheritance.
The decision to filter violence through a child's wonder—that perceptual shift—could've been sentimental, but the control in the editing and sound design keeps it mythic rather than precious, letting the specificity of 'scholar, mother, accused' carry the weight.