Ignition(s)
2026 · 2m
Directed by Nicolas Parent
Genres: coming-of-age, crime, drama
Tones: contemplative, dark, provocative
Young people from Caledonia's working-class neighbourhoods grow up surrounded by luxury and omnipresent beauty less than five minutes from home, sometimes without enough to eat — and conclude that if they cannot have those beautiful things, no one will.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Parent takes the tired morality tale about inequality and flips it into something genuinely unsettling—the premise isn't "poor kids want nice things," it's "poor kids will burn it all down if they can't have it," which most festivals would sand down to nothing. This is the kind of provocation that makes people uncomfortable in exactly the right way.
There's a formal precision here that recalls the Dardenne brothers' matter-of-factness about class violence, though at 2 minutes Parent risks collapsing nuance into provocation—the film's power will hinge entirely on whether the editing trusts the premise or feels obligated to comment on it.
The key move is probably the decision to keep Caledonia's luxury visible and close rather than distant—within five minutes, not five continents—which makes the film's economics visceral instead of abstract; everything hinges on that spatial proximity Parent chose to anchor the story.