Flamboyante
2026 · 2m
Directed by Flora Bessim-Gagné, Romane Billard
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, whimsical
Sam crosses the park, her eyes full of imagination, in search of the most beautiful leaves that will grace her painting; in her quest for perfection she rejects the slightest defect, persuaded that beauty can exist nowhere else.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A two-minute parable about perfectionism isn't exactly radical, and the whimsy-meets-melancholy structure feels like it's been done; the real subversion would've been letting Sam actually find something.
Bessim-Gagné and Billard compose a formally graceful meditation on desire and incompleteness, positioning their frame-work within a lineage of bildungsfilm that prizes visual poetry over plot—each rejected leaf becomes a considered moment of refusal.
The masterstroke is the sound design against the visual search: what could have been pure whimsy becomes aching because the audio landscape keeps pulling toward loss, and that single tonal choice transforms a simple premise into something that lands like a whisper.