L'Étincelle
2026 · 2m
Directed by Maïa Trains
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age
Max, a dynamic young woman living at a hundred miles an hour, escapes her banal daily routine in search of good times with friends.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise is aggressively normal—girl wants fun, escapes routine—which would be DOA in anyone else's hands, but Trains seems to be doing something weirder with it than the logline suggests; I'm betting the *how* subverts the *what*.
A two-minute coming-of-age comedy is a structural tightrope, and without seeing the cut I can't assess whether Trains has the formal control to make those beats land or if it collapses into montage sentiment.
Two minutes is a ruthless format—Trains has to nail either a single performance choice, a cutting rhythm, or a sound design move that *is* the whole film; that's where I'll know if this is just pleasant or actually alive.