La Feriati
2026 · 2m
Directed by Diane Lavarini
Genres: drama, romance, thriller
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
A young man catches himself remembering an evening when he met the girl of his dreams - until the remembering obsesses him and makes him doubt reality.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A memory-doubt thriller that could've been precious indie pablum, but Lavarini refuses to let it settle—the surreal melancholia keeps you off-balance, never quite letting you trust the nostalgia, which is honestly the only move that makes this premise sing.
The contemplative restraint here sits in productive tension with the thriller machinery underneath; it's formally aware of how cinema constructs false intimacy through subjective vision, positioning itself in a lineage of memory-as-unreliable-narrator that stretches from Bergman forward.
That two-minute window lives or dies on a single edit decision—the rhythm of when the doubt creeps in, how the cut between 'remembering' and 'present' destabilizes the frame—and Lavarini makes the one choice that transforms romantic reverie into existential vertigo.