FILTRÉS
2026 · 2m
Directed by Florian Schneider
Tones: contemplative, dark, darkly comic
Christmas 2025: around the table, a family is 'connected' through their smart glasses but totally absent - the father trades in silence, the mother is coached by a toxic AI, the son escapes into a game - and only the grandfather, without filters, desperately seeks human contact, until a technical bug breaks the perfect illusion and raw, dirty reality resurfaces.
Picked by Felix
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Finally—a film that actually *gets* the horror of connection without touching, where the punchline isn't 'technology bad' but 'we chose this.' Schneider's doing something genuinely subversive here: using sci-fi tropes to make the dinner table feel more alien than any alien planet, and that bug that crashes the illusion? That's the only honest moment anyone has.
The formal restraint is admirable—Schneider holds the composition tight, lets the absence of eye contact do the work—but the satire risks collapsing into familiar critique; what elevates it is the precision of the editing rhythm, how the cuts between glass-filtered faces and the grandfather's desperate analog presence create a visual argument about presence itself.
The decision to make the grandfather the only unfocused figure, the only one without the technological sheen, does everything—it reframes the whole film from 'tech is bad' into something about whose reality counts, and that single compositional choice transforms what could've been preachy into something genuinely melancholic.