La Belle et le Bête
2026 · 2m
Directed by Axel Faury, Thomas Agathocleous, Vincent Leblois
Genres: dark comedy, fantasy
Tones: darkly comic, surreal, whimsical
Princess Caroline lies in a deep sleep when Prince Edouard comes to kiss her — but it does not go as he had imagined.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
The kiss that breaks the spell becomes the kiss that *shatters* it—literally subverting the entire fairy tale grammar in 120 seconds, which is exactly the kind of premise inversion that makes consensus scouts nervous and me very awake.
A formal deconstruction of the Perrault tradition that understands its lineage precisely enough to dismantle it with surgical timing; the restraint of the execution—what we *don't* see—speaks to considerable craft awareness.
Three directors collaborating on a two-minute film suggests the entire bet was on one specific tonal pivot, and that moment—the collision between romantic expectation and darkly absurd reality—lands hard enough to justify the whole thing.