Kalos: Ab Oculis
2026 · 2m
Directed by Kler Beyney, Adrien Charrassier, Carl Le Houerou
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
In 2025 everyone has a phone - even Leo; only Marcel feels no interest in this seemingly inevitable technology, and through their two parallel, symmetrical yet different stories, Leo's life risks switching into high resolution.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The symmetry trap—two lives mirroring each other, one tech-drunk and one obstinate—should be heavy-handed, but instead it's weirdly unsettling; Beyney et al. refuse to pick a side, which is exactly the kind of refusal that makes consensus scouts itch.
The formal constraint of parallel structure deployed with real discipline: two stories held in suspension, neither resolving into judgment, each frame earning its melancholy through compositional restraint—this is cinema as argument, made precise.
The decision to let Marcel's disinterest carry equal visual and temporal weight as Leo's immersion is everything; most films would telegraph which choice matters, but here the three directors trust the edit to make absence as vivid as presence, and that's the lift.