KEBAB
2026 · 2m
Directed by Ben Haddad, Sam Nakache
Tones: contemplative, tender, whimsical
In an apartment, two friends collide over a seemingly trivial detail; Noah struggles to convince Arthur and to shift his gaze toward something deeper, in a story about what we choose to keep, what we let go, and the value of small moments.
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Two minutes of friends bickering over nothing sounds like exactly the kind of premise everyone else would pass on—which is precisely why it works; Haddad and Nakache weaponize smallness against sentimentality and somehow land something that actually *means* something.
The restraint here sits squarely in a lineage of intimate European comedy-dramas (Koreeda, Dardenne territory), where the formal choice to hold on mundane argument becomes a philosophical statement about attention and presence.
What elevates this is the decision to let the disagreement breathe without resolving it—the cut away from easy reconciliation, the refusal to make Noah's 'deeper' thing palatably profound—that single structural choice transforms a two-minute apartment scene into something that actually respects its audience.