Grace
2026 · 2m
Directed by Marie Lalive
Genres: dark comedy, drama, fantasy
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, whimsical
Grace, a cinema star, wants to end her life - but she has not counted on the intervention of a rather strange fairy in her bedroom.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A suicide narrative that pivots on a *fairy* intervention—most scouts would bury this as tonal whiplash, but Lalive's refusal to choose between dark comedy and genuine pathos is exactly the kind of genre sabotage that shouldn't work and somehow does.
The tonal control here sits in a lineage of dark fairy tale retellings, though at 2 minutes Lalive risks sacrificing the formal deliberation needed to hold contradictory registers—the whimsy threatens to undercut rather than complicate the gravity.
What elevates this from concept to film is almost certainly the performance choice: how Grace meets the fairy's intrusion, whether the actress plays it as surrender or defiance in those crucial reaction beats—that single emotional calibration determines whether this lands as subversive or precious.