FORMOL
2026 · 2m
Directed by Milo Fernandez de la Cuadra
Genres: dark comedy, drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, surreal
Following the death of Queen Anetha during her final show, her friend, an embalmer, decides to take charge of her in his own way.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A 2-minute film that treats death, performance, and friendship as a darkly comic three-way collision—most scouts would've squeamishly sidestepped the embalmer's tenderness, but Fernandez de la Cuadra swings for the surreal without flinching, and lands it.
The formal restraint here—how the film holds its tonal register between reverence and absurdism without collapsing into either—suggests a director aware of how cinema mourns, drawing lineage from both experimental cinema and the long tradition of death-as-companion narratives.
Two minutes and a single production choice—keeping the performance frame even as the subject shifts from living to embalmed—reframes what 'final show' means and carries all the emotional weight; that's the decision that makes this work.